宗教活動是人類社會生活很重要的一環。隨著社會生活型態的變遷，宗教團體及 其信仰的內涵也會有所變動，因而每個時代都有當時的新興宗教運動。在社會的各個面向創 新與變遷的過程中，衝突、矛盾與鬥爭在所難免，新興宗教運動在求生存與發展時，也自然 不免有若干和傳統格局脫節之處。在這種調適與整合的過程中，教育扮演了促進人與人間溝 通與理解的角色。為了梳理新興宗教運動所帶來的宗教信仰與宗教教育的問題，本文首先從 近二十年來世界各地發生的較為人矚目的新興宗教失序的事件談起，探究其在歷史、政治、 社會和心理上的成因背景；繼則探討新興宗教及其信仰的性質與有關新興宗教成因的理論觀 點；接著再分析檢討臺灣地區新興宗教發展的現況與內涵；最後，先區分學校宗教教育的類 型及其展現情形，再對美、日兩國對宗教教育所採的立場有所省察，討論我國各級學校提供 宗教教育課程的可行方式，提供可行的建議。

　　　　　Religious activities have been one of the most important aspects in human social life. New religion movements have always been occurring as religious parties and their faiths changing with the changes of social life-style in history. Since it has been inevitable that conflicts, contradicions and struggles always follow the process of social changes, new religion movements could not avoid the disconnection with traditions during the process of seeking for survival and development. In such a process of accommondation and integration, educational system has always played the role of facilitating the interpersonal communication and understanding. For the purpose of analyzing the problems of religious faith and religious education related to new religion movements,this study firstly started with some anomie events of new religion movements in some areas of the world in recent two decades for exploring their his torical, political, social, and psycological causes background. Subsequently, the nature of new religion movements,their beliefs, and the theoretical views of forming them were discussed. After that, the current situation and contents of new religion movement in Taiwan were then analyzed and examined. In the last part, the types of relgious education and its conditions of implementation were distinguished at first; then the standpoints of the United States and Japan on religious educaiton in schooling were investigated; finally, the possible direction and model of religious education curriculum in various levels of schools in Taiwan was discussed, and some practicable suggestions were also proposed.