跨文化交际之比较中西宗教文化的不同

The Comparison of Chinese and Western Religious Culture Religion has gone through a long history of evolution and development, creating a rich and varied culture. Proper understanding the positive role of religion can helps us better understand the Western thought, worldview, values and actions, also helps us to avoid cultural misreading in the process of cross-cultural communication, so as to more effectively communicate and promote understanding,This paper analysis that Chinese and Western religion uniformity on the teleology and the main difference in the religion spiritual, to expound on cultural difference between Chinese and Western religious have an effect in cultural life of their respective, reexamining the modern value of Chinese and Western religion cultures, with a view to the positive role of religion and culture to be a good development and to promote the smooth implementation of intercultural communication.Religion is a part of the culture and play a vital role in people’s daily life, through religion we can very clearly see human social and cultural situation in a particular cultural regions. As China’s increasingly open and the increase of contacts and exchanges with other countries, religious exchanges is inevitable.The majority of Westerner believe in Christianity, because it’s Christian culture constitutes a Western cultural background, makes any part of Western culture are more or less with a Christian atmosphere since the middle ages. But the Chinese people has long been affected by Confucianism, religious beliefs of the Chinese nation is hybrid forms under this premise plays a dominant role while integration of Buddhism, Taoism and others folk religion. From the perspective of cultural policy, religious culture can unite the masses, strengthening the cohesion of thought and the consistency of the behavior, from the perspective of political function, religious culture can contribute to the smooth implementation of the giverning class domination, to maintain the existing order, from the regilious sense, the regilious culture to provide fantasy in a spiritual comfort for people. It can be side that on the religious teleology, Chinese and Western religion is completely consistent. However, through the comparison and analysis of the similarities and differences between Chineseand Western religious spiritual and on the impact of their own cultural life. We will find that they have great differences.Religious culture reflects a period of human emotion, thought and belief, but also reflects the political and cultural ideas of that time period. In the higher levels of productivity in society today, religious as a political tool of the era is gone, it again becomes a reflection of the thought and culture, still plays a role cannot be ignored in human society. However, Chinese and Western religious cultures in care for the human destiny, along with individual consciously to assume responsibility to save the world as a laity in this aspect, there are a lot of similarities, but there are also some differences.The relationship between God and man is any religion must answer basic questions. The Western Christian culture as the Christian theory of everthing was builted in a God-centered, God is the creator of the universe, he created all thing of the natural world, for nature legislation and to formulated laws of development and change in the nature; God also is the creator of human, God not only created the human soul and body, but also created the history of human. Because God is omnipresent, omnipotent and concern for human, so human should to obey God. Human greatest happiness is to restored the relationship between God and human such as parent-child, back to God’s side. Human restored the relationship with God, just rely on their own unilateral power is absolutely indispensable, human should depends on the grace of God, salvation of Christ, but also with all our heart to love God and love others. With Christian is different, the central focus is people of Chineses religion, this religion stands for “The Unity of Heaven and Humanity”, Chinese traditional culture and the concept of God and human don’t emphasize call God to revealed himself, but with emphasis on self-examination to comprehension of the value and significance of its own existence.People of different cultural backgrounds often have different world view, outlook on life and values. These concepts are concerned with their religious beliefs and the religious environment. China is one of the world’s four great ancient civilizations, long-term in agricultural society. In a self-sufficiency environment of subsistence economy, gradually developmed a values in family units, with loyaltyand filial piety as the core. Such as the moral values of Confucian and the naturalistic values of Taoism, values of feudalism which ruled China more than 2000 years, they deeply affect the Chinese lifestyle, values and ways of thinking. Christian is a philosophy of religion, it theological doctrine is based on philosophy. In Western religious culture, the core values of Christian after development, forming a kind of ultimate concern for human existence, it provide moral protection for existence and development of social groups. Thus further led to the difference between Chinese and Western values and religious views.Religious culture have an important effect on vocabulary, idioms of Chinese and Western. There are many Chinese idoms from buddhist language, they mainly comes from the translation of buddhist scriptures. In Western countries while the Christianization, Christian language and thought are inevitably penetrated to all aspects of the social life and the political system in British and American countries. In biblical proverbs and allusion become an indispensable par of English language.Religious culture have made indelible countributions to human civilization and development in the field of cultural exchange, philosophy and languages. Religion of a new age in constant development, change and adjustment in order to adapt to accommodate developmentand progress of society, idealistic and unreal thought in religious will be abandoned by people, positive scientifis parts in religion will still be reserved and inheritance of people, it become a important force in promoting social and cultural progress. To re-examining the modern value of Chinese and Western religious culture is a special kind of cultural phenomenon in the development process of hunman society. It not only has the structure and form from social culture, and containing various types of human culture, it has an important ideological, ethical, aesthetic and intellectual values, we need to discover, organize and use。