System Of Rural Non-religious Social Memory

Recently, as one special religious form, the non-system religion developed widely in countryside. Because of the nature of its own, as well as the unique society culture and the social makings of Chinese countryside, the non-system religion's development opportunities is very narrow and small, its' underground characteristic is obviously. As it has been one organic part of country religious culture, the non-system religion has important significance for new socialist countryside construction. The research take the X Cun of Henan Province as an example, conducted a study on the relation among social field territory, social memory and non-system religion from micro perspective.The research discovered that the social background of religious identity of non-system religion was the changes of the social field territory in X Cun. The social background has formed the different social memory in the different members. Social memory, including collective memory and individual memory, played construction and maintenance role to the non-system religion. The collective memory's function of construction mainly displays in tow aspects: for the first, stimulated the requirement of religion, and the second, urged the conversion of the non-system religion to carry on the local. The individual memory also influenced non-system in tow aspects, namely the construction and maintenance of religious identity. The processes of believers' religious identity were different, for the difference of individual memory. The primary factor of the maintenance and development of the religious identity was the religious experiences after being religious.