A Study On The Rural Christian Churches In Heilongjiang Province From The Perspective Of Religious Market Theory

Since reform and open policy, Christianity is the rapid development in our country.If we are from the angle of view of the "religious market theory" to say, the current Chinese Christian present three different statuses, those are the red, the grey, and the black, all of this has become an indisputable fact. As an agricultural country, the development of Christianity in the Chinese countryside is Compelling.This paper based on the H city of the B village in Heilongjiang province, as a case,it is from the sociology and the anthropology perspective, using the way of the involving and the observing, and the application of field investigation and deep interview for B in the form of rural investigates the present conditions of the Christian faith. This article attempts through the cases of Christianity in the status quo of rural development, reveals the true condition in the Christian community on the Heilongjiang’s rural areas; Show Christianity in Heilongjiang rural soil presents the characteristics of Chinese folk religious. The author explores the reason that the family church of the rural Christian grows and occupies rural religious market so long time from the church and believers two angles. Finally, the author puts forward the theory of religious market and rural Christian house church in China from the three color market theory applicability problem thinking.