How to "sinicize" religion? Ding Shiyong, member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, thought of "inclusiveness"
2022-03-07
"In recent years, all localities and relevant parties have actively explored and promoted the continuous improvement of the top-level design of China's religious sinicization, the continuous cohesion of ideological consensus, the continuous refinement of measures and the continuous demonstration of effects." At the two sessions in 2022, Ding Shiyong, member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and director of Chongqing ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee, said, "to further promote the Sinicization of China's religion, there are still some problems, such as insufficient understanding, unclear ideas and achievements to be consolidated." Ding Shiyong suggested that to promote the "Sinicization of religion", we should focus on the "Four Combinations" of the combination of theory and practice, the combination of content and form, the combination of process and result, and the combination of leading and subject. "The localization of religion in China includes not only localization in space, but also modernization in time. This is a gradual historical process." Ding Shiyong said that it took five or six hundred years for Buddhism to be introduced into China in the Han Dynasty and to form Chinese Buddhist sects in the Sui and Tang Dynasties; It took seven or eight hundred years for Islam to be introduced into China from the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Ding Shiyong said that society is constantly developing and changing, and religion must keep pace with the times and constantly adjust and adapt. Therefore, the Sinicization of religion is only in progress, not completed. "We can't relax because the Sinicization of religion is always on the road." Ding Shiyong said that this requires religious work departments and all sectors of society to maintain sufficient strategic patience, make continuous efforts, and work for a long time to help the religious community solidly improve various activities, retranslate, select and interpret classics, adjust and improve religious rules and systems, publish treatises, audio and video and other ways and means, so that the Sinicization of religion can blossom and bear fruit and bear fruit. "To further promote the Sinicization of China's religion, the party and the government are the leading and the religious community is the main body." Ding Shiyong suggested that party committees and governments at all levels should accurately grasp the "pulse" of the Sinicization of religions in China, so as to guide them in a proper, powerful and effective way, so as to ensure that the Sinicization of religions goes steadily and far in the right direction. Ding Shiyong called on religious circles, especially representatives of religious circles, to give full play to their main role, enhance their sense of mission and initiative, overcome the mentality of passive coping, be unequal and unreliable, act actively, and constantly expand the depth and breadth of the Sinicization of religion. With the direction, how to implement it? Ding Shiyong said that on the one hand, all religions should enrich content and innovate forms, further deepen activities such as exhibition, discussion, interpretation and lecturing, and further enrich Chinese elements, especially local elements and era elements, in religious architecture, decoration and activities. On the other hand, the state religious work department should organize the selection and commendation of advanced collectives and individuals in the localization of religions in China, create a number of demonstration sites and bases for the localization of religions in China, and constantly enrich the form and content of the localization of religions in China. Ding Shiyong frankly said that the localization of religion in China is the only way for the development of religion in China, and the direction has been clear, but the specific connotation, path, method and measurement standard still need to be further deepened in theory. He hoped that the national and provincial religious work departments would give prominence to the theoretical research on further promoting the Sinicization of religion, so as to provide sufficient theoretical support for formulating policies and promoting practice. (outlook new era)
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