Villagers To Convert To The Road And Its Religious Life Of Christ

After 1980, with the implementation of the police of freedom of religious belief, Christian in china developed rapidly, in particular rural areas. The numbers of rural residents who convert to Christian grow instantly, it becomes the social phenomenon that a rural community can not ignore and has an important impact to rural social and cultural life. The process of rural residents who converted to Christianity and the true state of religious life is not only the collision and adaptation between Christianity as a foreign culture and the traditional Chinese culture, but also the concrete practice of Christianity. This paper chose an ordinary rural church of northern Anhui province as investigate site, according to the social and cultural environment in which rural Christians live, the paper describe the process of the rural residents who converted to Christianity and religious life, it shows the true state of the Christian faith in the rural areas, we can receive the further information about interactive relationship which the Christian relations with the local social and cultural beliefs.The process of the rural residents converts to Christian and its religious life is demonstrated localization features. The traditional interpersonal relationships are the primary means of contacting with Christian for the rural residents. The conversion motivation of the majority of Christians has a strong pragmatism orientation. The emphasis of "miracles" and the special religious experience in the process of the conversion are closely related the characteristic of worship of traditional Chinese folk beliefs.Rural Christian religious life conform to local rural production and living needs of Christians, worship ceremony are simple and arbitrary, the ways of preaching and content close to the way of life of rural residents, the Christians have a lot of autonomy in the religious life. When Christianity play a role with real life and traditional folk life, it has the mutual influence and infiltration. On the one hand, Christian adept to the folk life, on the other hand, it has a impact to the original folk life so that it may change.