The Study Of The Rural Christians’ Social Relations

Recently, China is in the community which is accelerating the transition. Rural community has also been a certain degree of impact, such as interpersonal relations permeated with a strong material interest, emotional desalination. However, under the long-standing influence of the family-based and farming civilization, kinship and geopolitical relations are mainly social relations of the people, but also the main body of the local social networks. After Third Plenary Session, Party’s policy of religious freedom restoration and implementation provides a relatively relaxed social environment for the spread of Christianity; social transformation, stress and mental confusion led to the imbalance of human spirit state, etc. Those all make the rapid development of Christianity in rural areas. The present study select a village of Anhui province, using field survey method, to study the secular social relations of the rural Christians and to explore Christian faith had what impact on rural Christians’ social relations and social networks. Under the background of the Christian faith, the sacred relationship between God and human and the secular social relations are the mainly life relationship for the rural Christians. The sacred relationship affects the secular relationship. Involvement of the Christian faith has double impacts on social relationships and social networks in rural Christians.I carried out a month-long investigation in S village using the method of fieldwork. In the survey, the author mainly uses interviews, supplemented by observation method to collect data. As a special study, this paper mainly discusses about five aspects:first, geography, social background and villages human life and Christian history and current situation in the S village; second, God’s meaning and attributes in the Christian faith, which further determine the relationship between God and man and the performance of rituals of everyday life; third, all kinds of social relationships and social networks at the Christian influence; fourth, in the fusion of the sacred and the secular, Christian life relationship and the secular social relations and social networks under the influence of sacred relationship in rural Christians are analyzed from the aspects of quantity, quality and structure. Finally, launched a further discussion, how to understand the interpersonal patterns of the Christian in daily life and under the marketing trend, the Christian faith has what impact on Christian social relations. On the one hand, the author hope the Christian faith can be understood correctly. On the other hand, guide the Christian faith behavior servicing for the new countryside construction.