Belief Network

Since the inception of Christianity, the family forms of the Church on religious organizations that exist, and since the 20th century, 20 years, the Chinese localization of the church begun to take shape at the same time, China has followed the rise of the home church. Church as a special family of religious groups, individuals are connected to the micro and macro levels of society, in terms of micro, home church tend to give the individual a homogeneous interpersonal networks, for the members, converts, as well as interpersonal relationships are have a significant impact; macro sense, this group model of the family church, the Church represents a typology of a branch of religious types, family and social tension Church members decided to stay.In this paper, a Home Church in Lanzhou City as the key cases, their shape, to absorb new members, and the overall structure of social networks to explore and research. The formation of the church family church model loosely derived from the original social network, in which its founder often has a close relative of the sub-social networks, on this basis, a home church of the initial network will be formed; intimacy of the new members to absorb and convert is a crucial factor, as the starting point for their research, in the conversion process, the members and their parents showed the relationship between the two forward and reverse modes of religious society, and tend to a friend to absorb new members of the Church of the key relationships; family activities and church ceremony, to a certain extent promoted the in-group interaction, and enhance integration of the groups. Church of the families in a series of social network analysis, the individual level, an analysis of individuals in the specific social network of accessibility, through the analysis to understand the role of members of the role of similarity in the structure of level , the analysis of the centrality of social networks and intermediaries, as well as the overall picture of the network.