Sociology of Religion: What do you think of religion as a cultural phenomenon?

Religious culture is first and foremost a belief culture. Its role in society and its pursuit of ideal vision are often based on the belief in religious morality. Moral belief is a reflection and grasp of the highest value concept of life and the highest ideal of society, a core cultural value activity in human spiritual life, and also the ideological core of religious culture.

Compared with the general secular morality of non-belief, the morality of belief has the characteristics of transcendence and sacredness. The transcendence of belief urges people to move from the material world to the spiritual world, from the real world to the ideal world, and makes people pursue a value existence that has nothing to do with secular interests. The sanctity of faith ensures the value and authority of faith, makes belief concepts an unquestionable and unshakable pursuit of believers, and leads to secular concepts and morality, which can gradually enhance the existence of sacred factors in social culture.

Therefore, moral belief is the ultimate concern for people and society, which can guide, correct and dominate people's social life and spiritual life. For individuals, lofty moral beliefs, whether religious or secular, can form a guide to personal behavior and shape a perfect ideal personality. For society, good moral belief can purify social atmosphere, cultivate a good social development environment, ensure the stable development of society and promote the development of society to a harmonious and perfect state. Therefore, in the construction of a harmonious society in China, the moral belief function of religious culture can be expected. This will have a positive impact on correcting the current excessively practical and vulgar social and cultural orientation and the social value orientation of money, resolving social problems such as the loss of humanistic spirit and lack of faith, and promoting the construction of the socialist core value system.