中西宗教观差异论文英文版

中西宗教观之比较

Abstract

There are over 80 % of people are religious in the west , while in China , there are about 90 % are non-religious .What makes so big a contrast ? We can only get the answer when we take a look at the following aspects and then make an analysis to them :mode of thinking , point of vault , view to god and human , view to the eternity , the role of religion in a society , regality and divine authority as well as the relation between philosophy and religion .From the analysis we can see that there are vast diversity between China and the west world among those aspects listed above .It is the difference that makes different view and different attitude to the religion between Chinese people and the people in the west .

Key words: view to the religion comparison study diversity

A Comparison between Chinese and Western View of

Religion

Introduction

According to a statistical data of the last century, the world population of more than 5.89 billion, of which 4.8 billion people of faith to participate in more than 1500 different religious denominations and religious activities. That is, in the world's population, more than 80% of the people are religious believers. While China In contrast, more than 90% are not religious believers. How formed huge gap? In this regard, Chinese and foreign scholars of common concern. Early in 1922 published "China's problems," a book, Russell said: "China is simply no religion, not just the upper classes so, but all the people alike."In religious terms, why is there such a big difference between China and western? Originally, beyond this life for the pursuit of human born with the desire to do Chinese people it is a special case?This paper tries to talk about the reasons why Chinese people is indifferent to religions concepts from Chinese and Western cultures and the view of religions.

I.The differences on thinking structure

In the initial stage of the human mind, chaos, intuitive way of thinking and perception of integrity, is a common feature of human thinking. However, the ancient Greek as the representative of the West, "the development of a limited overall concept is the concept of material and form an entity separate from, and attribute analysis method", which "led to the traditional ideological origins of modern science." "And the ancient Chinese developed a holistic view of all things infinitely continuous communication, Dahua popular consciousness or an organic whole, the subject is more important than the specific analysis and understanding capabilities." Thus lanes of Western thinking, leading to subsequent differences in ways of thinking, customs and mental performance methods, etc. area. For example, Chinese people are accustomed to intuitive, symbolic way of thinking, so it tends to be more often the expression mystery from concrete, tended to by a realistic impressionistic; and Westerners accustomed to logical thinking, then good speculative, reanalysis and therefore earlier also quickly out of the body and spirit with that is, I was mixed primitive stage. Here present no better or worse than the other, and right or wrong, just thinking features different. This is the essence and roots of Western cultures differences reason.

II.The differences on the view of values

From the point of view of values, West and Chinese are very different. China is one of the