On The Marxist View Of Religion With Chinese Characteristics

Religion is a very complex phenomenon. It is closely related to our life and has great impact on them.Marxist religious outlook can be defined as generalization and restraint, this paper is to analyze Marxist religious outlook from a narrow sense.Marxist religious outlook is a theory that during the course of the proletarian revolution, Marx and Engle use dialectical materialism and historical materialism method,carrying and developing excellent achievements on various theory of religion and atheism.The CPC combined the theory of Marxist religion with Chinese situation and religious problems in Chinese revolution, revealed the viewpoint, the general and specific policies,the practical experience of religious problems.Introduction mainly exposes the purpose of this paper, the significance of this paper, the objectives and innovations,and also includes the research methods.The first chapter of paper expounds Marxist view of religion systematically, expatiates Marx and Engle's thoughts on the essence of religion, the origin, the development and the social function of religion, and also the principle of how to deal with religious problems.The second chapter of paper outlines development course of Marxist view of religion.The initial stage is from the May 4th Movement to the new China was founded; Marxist view of religion has been through many vicissitudes from the new China to the Great Proletarian Culture Revolution; theory of religion that with Chinese characteristics was eventually formed after reforming and opening.The third chapter mainly exposes Mao's view on religion. The religious view of Mao's in democratic revolutionary and in the period of socialist construction was discussed one by one.The fourth chapter explains that how to innovate Marxist view of religion in the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Deng Xiaoping's concept of religion, Jiang Zemin's view on religion and Hu Jintao's view on religion was discussed one by one.