互联网的诞生尽管只有短短数十年,但是却彻底打破了时间和空间局限,改变了人们的生产方式、生活方式和思维方式,其中也包括人们的宗教信仰方式——一种以互联网为依托的新的宗教信仰与传播模式应运而生,由此形成了不同以往的“网络宗教生态”。网络宗教的出现,给宗教事务管理提出了新挑战、新要求和新课题,需要宗教工作部门高度重视,深入研究,妥善应对。一、互联网时代宗教发展的新特点 Although only a few decades ago, the birth of the Internet has completely broken the limitation of time and space and changed people’s mode of production, way of life and way of thinking, including people’s religious beliefs - a way to rely on the Internet New religious beliefs and modes of communication came into being, thus forming a different “network religious ecology” from the past. The advent of network religion has posed new challenges, new requirements and new topics for the administration of religious affairs, requiring religious departments to attach great importance to them, conduct in-depth studies and properly handle them. First, the new features of religious development in the Internet era