民族與宗教既是文化共同體又是價值共同體,盡管兩者時常相互交融,但卻具有根本不同的價值訴求。價值取向是區分民族與宗教的重要標尺,民族與宗教關系模糊化的實質是價值觀的模糊化。近年來,我國一些地區出現"族教合一""以教定族"等現象具有濃厚的"反世俗化"和"去中國化"的傾向。因此,必須將民族與宗教的關系置于社會主義現代化建設的框架之中做出正確的價值區分,培育信教群眾的公民意識和主體性精神,積極推進"族教分離"。

Nation and religion are both cultural and value communities. Although they are often blended with each other, they have different value appeals completely. Value orientation is an important criteria to distinguish the nation and religion. The essence of national and religious relationship’s fuzziness is the fuzziness of values. The phenomena such as " integration of nation and religion"and "defining nation by religion" appeared in some areas of our country in the recent years have a strong tendency of "anti-secularization" and "elimination of Chinese culture". Therefore, it is necessary to place the nation and religion relationship under the framework of socialist modernization construction in order to differentiate different values correctly, to cultivate the civic consciousness and subjective spirit of the religious believers, and to promote the "separation of religion and education" actively.