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The Encounter of Adherents and Non-adherents: The Spreading of Christianity in Rural Areas

Author: SunFeng
Tutor: ZhengXin
School: Nanjing University
Course: Communication
Keywords: Believer Non-believers Christian Rural Communication
CLC: B978
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract


Since 1807 Morrison across the oceans from the United States arrived in Guangzhou, China, to open the history of the spread of Christianity in China, Christianity in China widely spread and proliferation. Especially with the implementation of the policy and implementation of the national religion, Christianity in China's rural areas has been the recovery of the impact on the local traditional folk beliefs. The diffusion of Christianity spread in the rural community, Christian localization process or the localization process. This study, in-depth interviews and non-participant observation, believers and non-believers encounter as an entry point to study the spread of Christianity in the rural community, in order to found the Christian believers is how to achieve through a variety of native communication strategy for non- believers convince dissemination. D-Town, the spread of Christianity in local, as the entry point from the encounter of believers and non-believers, believers in this mainly refers to the Christian people, and they are willing to accept and act in accordance with the teachings of Christianity, rather than the believers the means Christian people, including religious beliefs of the people of other religions. For different reasons, such as illness, spiritual emptiness, family environment and other reasons, the non-believers into the church, became believers to spread the Gospel. The face of the believers convince dissemination, ability to meet the requirements of rational choice based on religion, the non-believers of Christianity showed agree or do not agree with the attitude, behavior and the faith of the firm on the road and shaken. To further strengthen the believers of the Christian faith, and to attract more non-believers, Christians make full use of local resources to achieve the spread of localization, including interpersonal network of acquaintances society achieve the lateral spread of Christianity, this interpersonal network includes both blood relatives, based on geopolitical neighborhood friend; symbolic ceremony native packaging, the localization of the ceremony, religious activities, as well as modifications and reuse of traditional rituals; achieve Christian The meaning of life and Christian ethics is embedded into the daily life, but also through the establishment of daily life support systems to achieve a sense of belonging to the Christian community. Finally spread of Christianity in the rural society a summary and discussion, proposed the use of Christian native communication strategy from the essence of Christianity in embedded spread of rural society, reflecting the ceremony propagation, and ultimately the sacred and the profane fusion. The face of the specific environment of the rural community, the local spread of Christianity future road will go, needs further reflection and observation.

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