On the Sinicization of religion, you must understand these three aspects
2022-03-30
When it comes to the proposition of "Sinicization of religion", many people do not understand the connotation, which is easy to produce some misunderstandings and deviations. To truly interpret "Sinicization" (even local religion), it also needs to be carried out from the following three aspects. First of all, the Sinicization of religion must clarify the Chinese attribute of religion and the socialist attribute of religion. China's constitution and laws stipulate that China's religions must adhere to the principle of independence and self-management and not be dominated by foreign forces. Therefore, the first interpretation point of "Sinicization" is to adapt to the localization of foreign religions, so that they can give full play to the excellent cultural genes in this religion to serve the current Chinese social construction, contribute to the construction of a socialist harmonious society and contribute to the great rejuvenation of our country in the new era. This adds regional, political and social affiliation to the proposition of Sinicization of religion. To make it a religion serving the development of contemporary socialist society in China is the starting point and foothold of the proposition of Sinicization of religion. Any religion is not and should not speak without social attributes. In religious organizations, whether religious practitioners or believers, they are first citizens of the state, and then they can be defined as citizens who maintain a certain religious belief. Before completing their mission of faith, they should first complete their civic obligations and social responsibilities as a national citizen, such as loving the country, abiding by the law, supporting order, maintaining conscience and so on. Chinese civilization has a long history of 5000 years. Looking forward to the new era of socialist construction, no matter what religion, we should fully tap the excellent traditional culture in our own doctrinal system to provide reasonable reference and reference for the development of today's society and provide positive spiritual energy for the current public. Therefore, the Sinicization of religion not only requires that the meaning of religion should adapt to Chinese culture, but also that religious believers can use China's excellent culture to deeply interpret the value of the times in the religious spirit, so as to truly turn their own religion (whether foreign religion or local religion) into Chinese religion, socialist religion and modern religion. In fact, this leads to the second definition of religious sinicization, that is, "Sinicization" is to realize the transformation of positive energy to today's China. This is a time limitation of the word "Sinicization". Second, the Sinicization of religion emphasizes the contemporary nature under the concept of Chinese regional and social politics. Its connotation is to realize the modernization of religion and make the ancient doctrines serve the construction of contemporary society. Taking the Sinicization of China's local religion Taoism as an example, how should the Sinicization of Taoism go? This is obviously fundamentally different from the localization process of foreign religions. Because of its inherent localization attribute, Taoism focuses on the "China" at that time and now. The Sinicization of Taoism is not talking about any dynasty in history, but China today. Therefore, the Sinicization of Taoism is to consider how to fully tap the excellent culture with the power of crossing the times from the ancient Taoism with a history of thousands of years, so as to serve China in the new era of socialist modernization. For traditional Taoism, "China" is not only a geographical term, but also a term of time. Therefore, the difficult problem facing the Sinicization of Taoism is how to extract the content consistent with the socialist core values from his vast collection of books, and finally realize the ideal of modern people's religious salvation through the interpretation of modern religious talents and the means of modern media communication. Thus, the ancient color attached to Taoism can be brought to life and become a practical religion and belief for contemporary people. Here, one or two examples may be given to further illustrate the necessary significance of religious modernization. Although the philosophy of Taoist classics is very mysterious, few people can understand the great righteousness by reading books. On the one hand, it has something to do with the mysterious nature of Taoism itself, on the other hand, it has something to do with the era of classic writing. Taoist classics were written at different stages in history. At that time, the words and allusions that may be easy to understand will appear deep and difficult for modern people to read, which is not convenient for today's believers to read and understand. Although there are some vernacular and modern versions of books that can basically meet the reading needs of the public, such translations are easy to lose the traditional charm of Taoism. How to achieve the balance between faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance is also a difficulty in the process of Sinicization of Taoism. For Chinese traditional religion, when expounding the classics, how can we fully tap the new spirit of the times, reinterpret the classics in combination with the requirements of the times, and even construct a modern system of its own doctrines, and straighten out these aspects, so as to further accelerate the process of sinicization and modernization of traditional religion and meet the requirements of the time attribute of Sinicization of religion with high quality. Third, the Sinicization of religion should also emphasize the word "Sinicization". The last word "Hua" should be interpreted from three aspects: the object, the way and the purpose of Hua. 1. In order to sinicize religion, we must first realize the transformation of religion itself. In fact, the Sinicization of religion is to appropriately change the original label of religion itself, such as foreign religion and ancient religion, so as to make it meet the value standards and social needs in the new era of China's socialist construction. This is not a single choice of who takes the initiative to adapt to who, but only the reform of sinicization and modernization can provide the possibility for the positive development of religion itself; Only by carrying out the reform of sinicization and modernization, can this religion be the religion needed by socialist society and contribute to the development of socialist society. 2. The Sinicization of religion should be based on humanism. The Sinicization of religion is not just the change of book doctrine, but the practical practice, which involves the substantive content of each individual of faith. Based on humanism, we can make "humanization" operable. Whether it is the object of belief, the believer himself, or the sentient beings who need to be measured, it is actually a multi angle interpretation of the concept of "man". There are "Superman" (called gods, immortals and saints in Religion) who deserve to be emulated, practitioners who have real achievements, and people who need faith to give boat navigation. Only by unifying these three kinds of "people" completely and realizing the purpose of learning, teaching, doing and being useful, can faith be respected. Therefore, Sinicization should be based on humanism. Only by putting people first can we fully explore the pragmatism of religion and make religion truly become people's religion and people's religion. 3. The Sinicization of religion should achieve the Enlightenment of mercy. In the final analysis, we should give full play to the social significance of religion. In terms of Taoism, it is to realize the great wish to spend the world. Through the study of Taoism, the main goal of Taoism is to guide people to face many social problems, such as quietness and benevolence in the process of Taoism, so that people can give full play to their own philosophy and benevolence in life. The tenet of Taoism's compassion for the world in the process of sinicization, on the one hand, can give full play to the positive role of Taoism in promoting social harmony, on the other hand, it also inherits the Taoist spirit of helping people since ancient times. In the belief system of Taoism, the Enlightenment of immortals is nothing more than "teaching people to be good". The purpose of the Enlightenment of speaking good, seeing good and doing good is to make the society more kind. This concept of "cultivating people" can span religious sects and has universal significance. Only by fully exploring and giving full play to the goodness at the bottom of people's heart can we truly achieve the grand pursuit of common people, social harmony and world harmony. If we do well in the above three points, perhaps our road of "Sinicization" will become clearer and clearer, and we will be able to shoulder the religious and social responsibilities entrusted to us by the times. (outlook new era)
Edit：Yuanqi Tang Responsible editor：Xiao Yu
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