Rural Christian Church And Social Change

In this paper, with the anthropological field research method and religious sociology perspective, we try to fully show off the personality characteristics of Christian churches of Zhe Liu town. The individual situation is closely related to the local social conditions.The rural Christianity Fever can be attributed to structural factors of the local society. In this article, the author combines functional approach and rational choice theory, and discuss the level of cognition and belief of Christians.This study includes such chapters:In the first chapter, this chapter narrates mainly the research background, existing studies, also gives us a brief introduction to the case story. At last this chapter gives us the research scheme and structure of this case study.The main part of this paper can be divided into two coherent layers. The first layer is made up of the second and third chapter. The two chapters adopt different Perspectives, the individual situation and group situation. In this layer, the study narrates the status of Christian individuals, Christian organizations, and Christian daily religious life, in order to let us know the situation of Christians and Christian church of Zheliu town in all round. In the second chapter, the author shows the structure and operation mode of Zheliu Christian church. The third chapter, the author describes the believers' daily religious activities and the features as a religious group. Besides its religious side, we also can figure out its social properties as a social group. This coexistence is obvious.The second layer is described in chapter four.In this chapter, from the macro perspective, the author considers the development of Christianity as the influence social change. The introduction and development of Christianity is the result of social change. The social change of Zheliu town is comprehensive. The concrete results are as follows:farmers have more leisure time. They have enhanced affiliation need but no channels. Social mobility is more and more frequent. Spiritual and cultural life is so poor in rural areas, but luckily they have already had the awareness of building their spiritual space actively.The fifth chapter is the last part. The study summarizes the research findings which are described previously. On the basis of those findings, the study analyses the Return letter behavior. The research finds that in an open society, mobility is the all-round. Vulnerable farmers, under the impact of openness, make such selections. They are free; at least they think they are free, autonomous, and rational. But Christian "Cognition" is not at the same level. The lower the educational level is, the lower the Cognitive level is. This cognition just stays on the surface.