Christian Religion Spreading And The Society Of Suiyuan In Modern Times

A lot of foreign missionaries came to china with Bible and Cross since the beginning ofmodem times. Their trace reached from littoral area to inland areas and the area beyond the GreatWall. The Suiyuan area had also been put into Christian religion territory. In here, missionaries builtchurches and recruited believers, made widespread connections with Suiyuan society throughcommon customs, such as managing land, organizing self-defensive corps, building schools andhospitals. Christian religion had brought Suiyuan society into influence in a certain sense.In this paper,â… have introduced the situation of the Christian religion spreading in Suiyuan area;summarized reasons for believers converted to Christian religion; elaborated the conflict betweenChristian religion and traditional society through four aspects: actual benefit, social norm, socialgroups, social authority; analyzed the situation of Christian believers' distribution, the memberrelation, the national structure, the family type, the occupational structure, the group awareness ofChristian believers; described the Christian religion community and religious life of believers;elaborated the social conformity exercised for preventing traditional society from split, classifiedthe conformity into the official conformity, the folk conformity, official and folk combined-forceconformity according to the subject of conformity, and the official conformity was the mostimportant; brought forward that the anti-Christianity movement in Suiyuan area was a radicalconformity waged by officers and men, Boxers and various anti-Christianity organizations.