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The Reconstruction Of Rural Daily Life And Meaning World When The Embed Of Christian

Posted on:2017-10-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W J DuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330512468829Subject:Sociology
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Since the reform and opening up, Christianity has developed rapidly in China's rural areas, which has aroused great concern in the community. Scholars have done a lot of research on it, and have got the fruitful results, but previous studies failed to understand the complicated and multi-faceted impact brought by Christianity on China's rural social lifedeeply,which mostly focused on the analysis of macro and single-wire. In particular, the upsurge in rural Christian Studies appeared in the late 1990s to the beginning of this century, far later, the direction and content of the "Rural Christian" study were little changed.Therefore, this paper studies the changes of rural social lifeunder the profound influence of Christianity, basing on the fieldwork on Qin zhuang area,Weinan City, Shanxi Province,where has been taken as a case-a regional community with a long history of the development of Christianity, it became a reliable object to study this topic. This paper will explore this topic in three dimensions:how the Christianity influences the daily life of the rural community; how Christianity changes the farmers' meaning system; the further development of Christianity will be presented in what kind of trend. These constitute the three main contents of the study. Under the main content,there are many sub topics, these topics are provided based on the experience data gained through the survey, which reflect different aspects of rural society.Specifically, the content and structure of the arrangement are as follows:The first chapter isintroduction:describes the introduction, the theoretical basis, literature review, research methods, basic concepts, research illustration and the paperstructure of this study summarily.The second chapter summarizes the study sites and the basic situation of Christianity development.The third chapter studies how Christian embeds into the daily life of our rural society and impacts on it deeply. It includes:daily life practice of individual Christians and Catholics groups, changes in rural social relationships form, the inlay between Christianity and the political and cultural life of rural mutual, the restructuring of village public space and private family space. They constitute the operational analysis dimension under the concept "everyday life".The fourth chapterstudiesthe changes of farmers meaning system, which Christianity has carved into. First, the author discusses Christianity's cultivation andtransformation towards the ontological value of for village and social value; Secondly, discusses thetension between Christianity and folklore and folk religions, and have revealed different concerns of the two value consciousand significant differences in different religious attitudes; Finally, he pointed out that there are limits in the influence on the Christian's impact on the farmers meaning systems to a certain extent.The fifth chapter focusing on real-world experience of Qin zhuang, has discussed the development trend of rural Christianity. The first section, examines the trends of the development of Christianity in different directions under the "secularization" background; Section II, chronicles the contradictions and conflicts between the churches and within the church ofQinzhuang, and has analyzed its profound impact on the development of Christianity; The third quarter, tracks the individuals'religious encounters after leaving the Qin zhuangand into the wider outside world, who has influenced by Christianity, studies what changes occurred in their faith, and the strategysignificance on rural Christianity developmentof those changes.The sixth chapter is the conclusion:based on a review of the content of the paper, the author schematically shows a new framework of the understanding, which provides a different thinking to the old theoretical paradigms.If in a different perspective, in respect of operating technique, the present study integrates Christian and key variable such as daily life, social relations, political system, cultural life, village space, meaning systems, folklore and folk religion into a unified analytical framework, and then describes the relevant connection of these variables, and on this basis, sketches out the dynamic pictureof profound changes in rural social life causedby Christianity's penetration.Christianity'sdevelopment of Qin zhuangcontinues, therefore, to make a definitive issue-oriented conclusion is particularly difficult. But one thing is beyond doubt, the development of rural Christianity deeply involved in the political, economic and cultural system of local society, it not only changes many aspects of the system, but is also framed by existing social conditions, on this basis, Christianity and rural Societyinteract alternately. The purpose of this study is precisely to identify this complicatedrole shape, and explain its meaning.
Keywords/Search Tags:Christianity, Social life, Meaning world, Village politics, Cultural lifeFolklore and folk religions
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