| As a carrier of the western culture and also a religion mode, Protestantism has penetrated into the various fields in Chinese society after China's opening up. According to the statistics given by three-self Church in 2000, the number of the registered Christians is about 20,000,000, consisting of peasants, workers, businessmen, intellectuals and people of every walk of life. Besides, there are more Christians who are not registered in three-self Church. Based on the statistics given by some certain overseas institution, the number of Protestants in China is around 70,000,000, to 80,000,000, and even bigger. Among the college students, considered as the elites of China's construction, there are certain numbers of Christians. As for the colleges and universities in Beijing area, the numbers of the fellowship are directly proportional to the numbers of the colleges and universities. The fellowships are fairly common in most of the colleges and universities. In some of universities, there are 2 or 3 and even more fellowships.City as investigation field, the author take the fellowships of some universities in Beijing and Christian as study object. By using some research method in religious sociology, the author carried on the long-term investigation to their Christianity belief, based on certain viewpoints theoretically. During this period, the author attended quite afew parties held by fellowship and House Church and experienced the undergraduate's religious life. By some in-depth investigation and interview, within more than one year, the author collected a great deal of data about the fellowship of universities in Beijing. After careful analysis and arrangement, the dissertation tiled The Case Study on Undergraduate Fellowship in Beijing came into form. The dissertation includes four sections in general.The first one is preface, in which the author introduces the characteristics of religious sociology and the so called new mode ofreligious sociology—some viewpoints of religious economy fromRodney Stark. Then, the author elaborates the Red, Black, And Gray Markets OF Religion In China, raised by Professor. Yang Fenggang. Thus leads to the author's summarization on study objects. In section two(chapter 1, chapter 2), the author elaborates two basis for the existence of the House Church. The first one comes from religious basis for foundation and development of the church. For, to every Christian, the doctrines of Christianity are so indispensable for their life. Without the theological theoretical basis, religion will loose everything worthy of research. Secondly, by elaborating the history of House Church, the author introduces the overall situation of the gray market of religion in Beijing. The third section (chapter 3) is the core part of the dissertation. In this part; the word family runs trough the whole chapter. The writerintroduces the process of undergraduates' fellowship, the role of its members, religious activity means, and religion's influence on undergraduates. This section consists of all research achievements of the writer, and provides the key data about undergraduates and their fellowship. Lastly, as the conclusive part of the dissertation, section four provides analysis of reason for undergraduates' believing in Christianity, rethinking for triple market of religion raised by Yang Fenggang, and also prospect for future of religion. |
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