民间宗教,无疑是“底层文化系统中的一环”。正因为是底层文化,故常常被精英文化人忽略甚至不屑。然而读《中国民间宗教史》(以下简称《民间》),你绝感觉不到深藏在文化人骨子里的清傲,那里充溢着作者对底层文化以及“引车卖浆者流”深深的“理解的同情”。《民间》之所以是一部成功的学术著作,我们认为,重要的是作者将视野转向了民间,将脚步迈向了民间,从而获得了创作的巨大的情感之源。在这部书的开头几页,作者就发出了低缓、不平、愤懑、为底层文化和下层民众求公正的声音:“构成中华民族主体的是底层社会,是下层民众,他们虽然数千年被压在金字塔的下层,终生贫困,而且得不到文化的布施,在帝王将相、神仙佛 Folk religions are undoubtedly ”a part of the underlying cultural system “. Because it is the bottom culture, it is often overlooked or even disdainful by elite and cultural people. However, when you read The History of Chinese Folk Religion (hereinafter referred to as ”Folk“), you never felt the Qingao buried in the bones of the culture, filled with the author’s knowledge of the underlying culture and the flow of ” Deep “Comprehension of sympathy ”. The reason why “folk” is a successful scholarly work is that we think it is important that the author shift his vision to folk and march toward folk so as to obtain a huge source of emotion for creation. In the first few pages of this book, the author sent a low, unfair and resentful voice to seek a just voice for the grassroots culture and the lower people: "The people who constitute the Chinese nation are the grassroots and the lower people, Was pressed in the pyramid of the lower life-long poverty, but also not the cultural facilities, the emperor will phase, the immortal Buddha