The Research Of Marxist Thought On Religious Harmony

Marx is famous for his attitude towards religion which comes from the saying:“religion is the opium of the people”in the book,Criticism of Hegel’s philosophy of law.Some scholars think this is the Marx’s critical attitude to religion and a summary of the basis of religion.However,with the development of academic research,the growing scholars hold the opinion that they need to research Marx’s writings linking to historical background.Marx and Engels’ perspectives and ideas for religion run through the total theory and practice of scientific socialism.In the struggle road to communism,Marx regards harmony as an important historical view,which is also the fundamental development direction in Marxist philosophy and the ultimate social condition for realizing the liberation of mankind.Harmonious thought as an insignificant part in Marxist thought on religious harmony has a great research value.In the thesis,the author would like to analyze the fundamental of Marxist thought on religious harmony from the aspects of social basis,theory basis and Marx’s self-realization.Marx’s thought on religion is a half inheritance from Utopian socialist,Hegel’s and Feuerbach’s idealism in some certain historical background.Marx finished a critical religion revolution by self-realization for religion and laid the foundation for the development of Marxist religion.In the thesis,the author prefers to analyzing the connotation and characteristic of Marxist thought on religious harmony from the perspectives of relations of politics and religion,and the relationships internal and between religion.As the basis of social harmony,religious harmony can be showed off from the different aspects of social life.The critical thinking,humanity,practicality among religious harmony embody a dynamic variation of Marx’s attitude to religion.For Marx,he emphasizes on humanity based on the critical of religion,and appeals to people combining theory and social practice to create a kind of harmonious religion relation with practice.In this way,people can have social harmony and happiness of life.The thesis talks about the current values of Marxist thought on religious harmony from the following three angles:religious spirit,a vision of religious harmony and modern religious civilization.As the latest theoretical achievements of sinicize Marxist religious view,the main values of religious harmony lies in the contemporary practice,solving the current existed social problems and providing a direction for the future religious life.The author wants to stress on that China’s religion must stick to Marxist thought on religious to analyze and solve problems in the process of document management about religion since Reform and Opening.