作为宗教社会学的基本命题，“神圣”是人类文明原初形态中的基本要素和华夏文明信仰的源头之一。基于中西语境中“神圣”概念的比较和讨论，本文提出“神圣”和“神圣者中介”作为中国宗教社会学的中层理论概念和基本命题，以重新解释“宗教”之定义，并在“即身成圣”“家国共享的仿圣机制”及神圣者类型的分析中，走出西方宗教社会学所定义的“宗教”话语困境。本文通过建构中国宗教社会学的“神圣者中介”理论模型，探索文明互鉴中的宗教社会学中国化路径，推动其自主知识体系的建设。

As a basic proposition of the sociology of religion, "the sacred" is a basic element in the original form of human civilization, and one of the sources of Chinese civilization s beliefs. Based on the comparison and discussion of the concept of "the sacred" in the Chinese and Western contexts, this paper proposes "the sacred” and "the agency mode of the sacred" as the middle level theoretical concepts and basic propositions for the Chinese sociology of religion, in order to reinterpret the definition of "religion". Also, through the analysis of "sanctification in the body", "imitation of sanctity mechanism shared by the family and the nation", and the types of the sacred, this paper goes beyond the dilemma of the discourse of "religion" as defined by the Western sociology of religion. The theoretical model of "the agency mode of the sacred" constructed in this paper can explore the path of Sinicization of the sociology of religion in the context of the mutual understanding of civilizations and promote the construction of its autonomous knowledge system.

本文系国家社会科学基金重大项目“中国特色宗教社会学话语体系及其本土知识结构研究”（18ZDA230） 的阶段性成果。

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