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Survival And Spreading Strategies In Religious Competition

Posted on:2016-03-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H M YeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2175330461987624Subject:Anthropology
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For influential enlargement and increase of believers, all types of religions adopt most appropriate disseminate strategies and survival strategies according with the religious ecological environment bounded with the related resources in the existence of the region located.This paper points out that compared with Buddhism and diffuse religions, Christianity is more proactive on religion dissemination. And disseminate and survival strategies, such as: part-time-preachers, media content indigenization, belongingness intensification, entertainment-oriented activities and the point cut for proselytization in relation to economic interests, based on the religious ecological environment in the town of B.Whereas Buddhism and diffuse religions apply the integrational method of theology and ceremony/theurgy by resource integration and resource sharing, win themselves places in the religious ecological environment of the town of B.At the same time, this paper provides with the opinion that the reason for different considerations on choosing disseminate and survival strategies are determined by the religious theology and the background culture of oneself.
Keywords/Search Tags:religion Survival strategy, religion disseminate Strategy, Buddhism, Christianity, Diffuse religion
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