Five Features of Beijing Religious Culture

Compared with many other cities both at home and abroad,Beijing's religious culture has its five distinct features: historical heredity,assimilation,multi-coexistence,central-guidance,and mass and folk custom.Primitive religions,Taoism,Buddhism,Christianity and Islamism have formed a complete and distinct course of progress in their development in the past.And the historical heredity is the utmost feature of Beijing's religious culture.Foreign religious culture has gradually been absorbed in Beijing's historical culture during its colliding with and being taken over in Beijing's traditional religious culture,and has finally become an important part of it.Assimilation is one feature of Beijing's religious culture.Different religious cultures have been sharing honor or disgrace while multi-coexisting in Beijing.Beijing's religious culture undoubtedly has influences on that of China's other cities and regions,therefore central-guidance is also an important feature of Beijing's religious culture.In the process of religious indigenization,the feature of mass and folk custom becomes another distinct feature of Beijing's religious culture.