Religion, Gender And Social Support

Accompanied by the recovery of the policy of national freedom of religion since the early 1980s, the religion of the countryside is getting active. Christ Protestantism development of the countryside attracts people's attention in China, great majority of Protestantism are poor villagers and middle-aged and old women among them.Among contemporary religious research, the scholars always analyze the Christ Protestantism spread in China and localization question from angle that culture compare mainly, but few people pay close attention to the Christians in the real countryside. This dissertation analyze the Christians spread with " society support " frame, explain rural reason and current situation that number increase rapidly, in the past 20 years. Through this analyze frame, we can understand the connection that villager's relation and villager's faith change under the " township government and villagers self-governance" mode since the intelligible reform. At the same time, we can understand the tension while religious thought as ideology and village governance. It was be reviewed by positive investigation that Christianize and its organizations could offer surmounting meaning and help for villagers when they face to the important time such as catch, old, disease, death, marry and puzzled because of its ability beyond geographical and Blood relationship limitation.The fixed religious place has strengthened the mutual approval and emotion between the believers and strengthened their cohesiveness. All of those things are different from rational villager's relation day by day. Furthermore, the religious thought and religious etiquette contravene already existing traditional folk culture.The dissertation argued that we must build the relationship between rural China governance, social change and the change of religious belief. This must be explained in the relationship of nation and villagers, villagers and market, villagers and villagers.