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Author(s):: SHI Hui-ling; School of Humanities and Social Science, Beijing Jiaotong University

Keywords:: social governance; social subject; government decentralization; religious relay

Abstract:: With the deepening of the modernization process, religion becomes an independent social force independent of politics and market. In the present China, multiple religions display several obvious social features. First of all, religious organizations are growing into important subjects in the social construction, which makes the “government decentralization and religious relay” become possible; secondly, the contemporary Chinese religious organizations in the actual operation are gradually gaining a powerful function of serving society, which lays an actual foundation for becoming the main subjects in social construction. It requires that in the new stage of social construction and social governance, we should fully display the social function of religion, making “government decentralization and religious relay” come into a reality.