西方魔幻小说英雄母题的宗教阐释——以《哈利·波特》为视角

宗教的价值在于为人们的信仰世界指明方向,《哈利·波特》作为西方＂现代性的危机＂背景下产生的文学作品,他的英雄母题叙事不仅与基督教原罪救赎思想有密切的文化联系,而且也蕴含了诸多异教文化元素。在给读者带来神秘的阅读体验时,这部系列魔幻小说也给受到不断进步的物质文明的沉重压抑,纯粹宗教信仰意义的精神慰藉范式几乎失落的人类,重构了一个暂以使心灵得以栖息的宁静港湾。

A Religious Study on the Motif Hero in Harry Potter

Religious value lies in pointing out the direction for the belief world of people.Harry Potter works as a literary work under the background of western modern crisis.The narration of its hero motif not only has close cultural links with the redemption of the original sin in the Christian religion,but also contains many pagan cultural elements.When the magical series brings mystical experience of reading to the readers,it also rebuilds a tranquil refuge to rest mind for humankind who is suffering from heavy repression from the material civilization of continuous progress and hardly find spiritual comfort in the religious belief world.