Contemporary Religious Secularization, In The Perspective Of Historical Materialism

The historical materialism thought that, the religion took one kind of social consciousness; it is to the social being reflection, its production and the change throughout the specific stage which develops with the society relates. The human society has each tremendous change; the ancestor church transforms its content and the form. In modernized and under the technical revolution influence, the religion had世俗化the tendency, along with the modernized process advancement, this kind of tendency changes more and more obviously, the religion drops day by day in the public domain influence and the importance, the religious belief also more and more becomes individual private affair, this meant as if the religion has lost the survivals pace in the modern society. However in 20th century last stages, actually appeared "the religion is upsurge " the phenomenon, in which is following each kind of emerging religious appearance and the traditional religion revival, the religious development appeared the new vitality as if. This kind of situation has caused the theory to the religious secularization phenomenon universal argument. This article from the historical materialism angle of view, to the religious secularization historic course, has each kind of social question which the reason as well as religious secularization causes and so on to carry on specifically analyzes, and proposes own viewpoint.The full text altogether divides into five parts:First part of - religious secularization meaning and its development course. This part of content elaborated the religious secularization meaning from two aspects: On the one hand, human society's each domain gradually got rid of great religious the fetters, society's all sorts of systems has rationalized day by day, the religion dropped day by day in the public domain influence and the importance, the religious belief also present personal characteristic, simultaneously the human nature development also obtained the certain liberation; On the other hand, religious oneself unceasingly adjusts adapts society's secularization, its value orientation also by "other shore" the god world gradually changed "this shore" person's world. The religious secularization development course divides into three stages: Entire society's secularization; Religious entity secularization; Human's belief secularization. Each stage all has the different characteristic.Second part of - contemporary religious secularization performance. The contemporary religious secularization performance is extremely complex, mainly may divide into two aspects: One is the religious secularization general performance, two is religious secularization in the contemporary special manifestation. The religious secularization general performance includes: The religion drops day by day in the public domain influence and the importance; Religious belief "personal"; The religious value orientation changes "this world" by "the other world"; The religion adjusts oneself, coordinated and science relations and so on. Religious secularization is "the religions upsurge" the phenomenon in the contemporary special manifestation, if, traditional religion revival and fundamentalism starting; Emerging new religious and cults appearance and so on.Third part of - religious secularization produces reason. This part has analyzed the reason from the interior and exterior two aspects which religious secularization produces. Analyzes from the religious exterior factor, namely economy, politics, factor and so on science and technology development to religion impact and influence, thus causes and the advancement secularization advancement; Two, analyzes from there legions own internal factor, namely in religious itself exists secularization reason. In addition, but also has the spiritual condition which religious secularization produces: On the one hand was the god has been faint in person mind status, in the theology religious belief appeared the crisis; Two is in the modern society's people has "the spiritual crisis" seriously, these two kind of situations folded putter bring together, cause the people to choose secularization the religion the tendency. Religious secularization is outside the religious interior and the religion and so on each kind of factor combined action result.Fourth part of - religious secularization future tendency. How will the religious secularization future development tendency, always be theory matter of concern. Some viewpoints believed that, religious secularization can cause the religion finally to wither away; some thought the religion cannot wither away, the future society will be the religious society this is two completely opposite viewpoints. The religion took one kind of social history phenomenon, its production, the change and the development conform to the thing self movement, the change and the law of development. In this part, summarized and has analyzed each different viewpoint, simultaneously elaborated religious secularization certainly not to cause the religion in modern society's withering away, the religion to wither away must experience extremely complex, is long, the winding process, religious secularization is only in religion developing process inevitable process stage.The fifth part - summarized the religious secularization significance, simultaneously pointed out should pay attention to each kind of question in view of religious secularization in, how should promote religious secularization to face is being advantageous the direction advance which developed to the society.