A Study On The Process And Pattern Of Time And Space Of Religious Sites In Jiangxi Province

Based on the data of various religious sites in Jiangxi Province,this paper takes the city and county as the basic research unit,taking 1949,1978,1992 and 2004 as the research time,and comprehensively uses mathematical statistics,ESDA and geospatial analysis method,the temporal and spatial processes and the evolution of the main religious places(Taoism,Buddhism,Christianity and Islam)in Jiangxi Province were discussed.And thus summed up the evolution of different stages of religious development patterns and laws,then four different types of religion and terrain,population,traffic and other factors of the relationship between the interaction have been deeply discussed through the geography weighted regression model analysis.The results are shown as follows: after the founding of PRC in 1949,especially since the reform and opening-up in1978,religions of Jiangxi Province has an unbalanced development both in time and spatial dimensions.Performances in time dimension are that since the reform and opening up,the total number of four religious sites has increased continuously and most obvious increase is the number of Buddhism sites and the growth rate of Taoism sites.Meanwhile,Buddhism and Christianity in space has shown a positive correlation and formed an aggregative trend.In addition,the phenomena of over-agglomerate and rapid expansion exist in different religion.Then performances in spatial dimension are that the spatial structure of the dominated religions changes significantly and the spatial distribution of dominated religions tends to be dispersed,that contribute to form the regions composed by a variety of dominated religions.At the same time,intensive areas of four religions spread from the south to north and then to be a north-south strip distribution.In the end,the mode of religion development stages shows that the evolution of religions has its own internal dynamic mechanism and affected by many other factors.Competitionand merging,mutual constraint and balance among religions make the regions go through religious discrete stages,dominated religions gathering stages,and finally form the religious large fusion.In the course of exploring the evolution pattern of the religious development stage,the myth that affects the distribution of religious space is solved by establishing the method of geography weighted regression.The results show that,in terms of the total amount of religious sites,the layout of religious sites is mainly affected by traffic factors in Ganzhou City and Jiujiang City,and the area affected by population factors is Xinyu City,and the most affected by slope factors Regional concentrated in the central and eastern Ganzhou City and central Jiujiang City and Nanchang City.For Buddhism,Taoism and Christianity,as well as Islam,slope,population density and traffic have different effects on them.