Abstract: Britain, France and the United States possessed three different kinds of enlightenment thought and practice mechanism, so they embarked on different ways ofsocial structure transformations and modern evolution. Not only the Enlightenment movement in Britain, France and the United States but also the essence of the Enlightenment emphasizes the rights of individuals and the spirit of freedom and independence. By contrast, in Chinese social tradition and cultural resources, "individuals" are always "private persons" restrained or squeezed by the general rules rather than the individualized individuals, and consequently the private seriously depends upon the public. In light of religious sociological theories, this paper investigates Chinese religious faiths and their transformations in modern times and finds out that in the context of China's Enlightenment, the order form of "relations equal structures" in religions makes personal religious faiths in Chinese society lack proper approaches to the public, which is a common social phenomenon in people's intercommunication. In this sense, the Enlightenment is still unaccomplished in China.

Key words: enlightenment discourse, order form, privatization, relationship between the public and the private