Han Muslim Groups Studied

As the marginal group in contemporary Chinese society, the Han Muslims's number is extremely small, but studies for them have a great significance. Because they have been lived with the influence of traditional Chinese culture and the ideology of atheism education before they convert to Islam, the process of accepting the Islam is very difficult. Why and how did they choose the Islam? What are their characteristics and personality? what changes happened in their study work and daily life after conversion? How did they identity with nationality and religion? And how does the policy of nationality and religion make them feel embarrassment?On the basis of the above-mentioned questions, and through a survey conducted for some han muslims in Beijing, the paper try to analyze a series of problems arised by the Han Muslim by religious psychology, religious sociology and anthropology of religion.The first chapter of this paper is a brief introduction of the relevant theory and research of the han Muslims conversion, further more,the definition and research methods of Chinese han Muslims are also contained. As a basis for analysis, the second chapter introduced the traditional religion and culture which they accepted before their convertion as background knowledge . the third chapter describes some survey-based classifications. According with its initial reasons for their conversions, the influence of social environment,the conversion after personal continuing to pursue the religion and the conversion due to inter-ethnic marriages are three main types of initial reasons. And under the influence of social environment, the author fractionized the initial reasons for the conversion into 4 kinds: influence under social environment ,the influence of impact of the media, and love between Muslims and convertions for consanguinity of Hui groups. On the other hand, the author classified the factors of these conversion intentions into 5 types basing on information of interview and the theory of related to religious conversion,which include individual mature, social environment, and popular medias which carried to gain ground the Islamic message, the impact of social relations and the religion itself; and also analyse the the phase of crisis- stage ,leaguer -stage /interactive -stage , devoting -stage during the crisis process of Han converting to Muslim; and make rebuting to limitations of theory that analysis of han muslums with "religious acts of rational choice theory "In the following part, ,the author make a summary analysis of the characteristics of the Han nationality and the presence of Muslims analysis with the phase combination of subjective and objective research in the fourth and the fifth chapter. The author believes that han Muslims today have their own characteristics in religious beliefs and participate in of family relationships and social exchanges, and cultural identity, but there are also some problems, such as: rigid Islamic faith, careless about the national title; misundrstand of Chinese traditional Muslim; influenced by the " the secularization of religion ", personal of the Islamic faith,etc.Finally, the authors pointed out that Han convertions are influnced with a variety of factors instead of realistic and utilitarian considerations, or a impulsion. The desire from the spiritual world of humanity itself and the meaning of life is the fundamental condition of their conversions. And the social environment is the outer condition of their conversions, We, as researchers, can understand their choice of religion and significance of religious that influnce the human life in society only by use " The Perspective of the Other".