恩格斯在批判和发展前人理论的基础上创立了历史唯物主义的宗教观。恩格斯从宗教的起源、宗教的本质、宗教的消亡等方面阐述了自己的宗教理论,恩格斯宗教观的深刻之处在于把宗教问题的探究诉诸于生活实战,开启了宗教研究的新视界。 Engels founded the historical materialist view of religion on the basis of criticizing and developing his predecessors’ theories. Engels elaborated his own religious theory from the aspects of the origin of religion, the nature of religion and the disappearance of religion. The profound point of Engels’ religious view lies in resorting to the exploration of religious issues in the actual combat of life and opening a new horizon of religious research.