From Belief To Faith : A Study On The Life Course Of An Emerging Square Dance Participants

This study adopts the field participatory observation method to observe and interview of a new square dance "clapping exercise" in TA area of XM city,focusing on the growth process of clapping exercise and the psychological changes of participants.Study found that previous studies on the square dance form of "collective return" and "femininity" and so on some theory with XM runs counter to the actual operation of the city square dance,chanting clapping exercise and fitness value elements of religious belief runs through the whole life course,clap your hands hold the individual experience during the process of participating in the construction of belief,emotion embedded and belief internalized the three stages.Organizers are different in different stages establish "belief" participants,the participants in the organizers of the training of psychological change constantly,from clapping exercise health belief gradually rising to the status of religious belief,to realize the change of participants from the instrumental rationality to value rationality and snare made many exercises and loyal followers,and based on the target to achieve effect,clap your hands in the operation and its derivative of the series of activities,clap your hands hold the participants in the belief collapse transition,faith,and faith to upgrade three types of psychological differentiation phenomenon.According to the research,the belief and belief transformation formed by the interaction between individuals and religions with hand-clapping as the carrier constitute the general mechanism of the motivation of individuals to participate in hand-clapping.The performance and differentiation of "belief" enrich the cultural connotation of square dance and construct the community of belief at the same time.This paper further discusses the development process of "hand-clapping exercise" and the influence of participants' psychological changes on the development of hand-clapping exercise in the society of southern Fujian where religion prevails,so as to interpret the perspective of square dance solidification again and provide some theoretical reference for local sports governance.