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"Soul Driven" or "God’s Call"

Author: LiYuHan
Tutor: WangBangHu
School: Anhui University
Course: Anthropology
Keywords: Oil mill village Woman Village Christian Spiritual and cultural
CLC: B979.2
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract

Christian faith in China's rural masses in a very popular, especially rural women, the majority of believers, making it China's rural churches an effective strength can not be ignored. Since the reform and opening up, especially since 1980, with the Chinese mainland Christian believers gradually expand the scale of the research themes of Christianity is gradually becoming a hot spot many disciplines, scholars have from literature, religion, sociology, history, ideology political multidisciplinary dimension to examine it. As Christianity localization boom lift, Village phenomenon of secularization of Christianity and other issues also attracted scholars from various disciplines attention of as an abstract sense of Christian culture and thought were deep and systematic research. However, most of these studies themselves lack firsthand fieldwork materials, and therefore lacks empirical. In addition, the domestic anthropologists study of Christianity is the initial stage, and for rural women believers fewer studies of this group. Looking at the current situation of domestic sociological study of religion is not difficult to find that current research is mostly pure research and countermeasure research, inevitably flow in the macro-oriented, formal. On the other hand, the existing research results, mostly from the overall study to explore the Christian faith, the lack of awareness of the problem, the conclusion is often identical. However, the local cultural phenomena must be \Clear is that different parts of the Christian church spread not only by national external environment and background effects, it being a small place where the impact of social and cultural backgrounds. Therefore, to conduct in-depth study of Christianity, we must further examine the small impact of socio-cultural context, the development of Christianity into the regional social culture explain. The main significance of the title of this article is that, through the unique perspective of anthropology, using anthropological research methods, the Central Plains region in a unique cultural context of Christian women do about the problem, and hopefully be able to give domestic cultural anthropology research injected females research perspective, make it into a more comprehensive and extensive research space. As a case study, paid more attention to the unique social and cultural oil mill village to observe women \, thinking they are involved in Christian activities in the specific role and \Specifically, the paper mainly discusses the following aspects: The first chapter introduces the oil mill village women in religious life in the background, the location of the fields examined regional economic, social and cultural profiles, on this basis, to understand their basic daily and spiritual lives. The second chapter describes the oil mill village women \Chapter III examines the case of women \They \Chapter IV Analysis of Women \Weber has pointed out: the Chinese people without faith, because their motivation is pragmatic, secular. Based on this motivation on \The world today is toward cultural pluralism, economic globalization forward, social advocacy of democracy, freedom, openness. New era requires a more highly qualified women, women's groups will be to promote an important force for social progress. Finally, from the rural communities of faith and social, political, cultural associations, particularly as an alien faith discussions with the rural community of the Christian spiritual and cultural relations, and thus gives us the relevant thinking. This article is based on a Yudong villages - oil mill village as a case around six women Christian \In particular, due to the local rural \Religion itself is a kind of social psychology, which reflects the specific social structure; it generally requires the support of specific populations, so a kind of faith is often not personal, but a social nature. The field research, directly from the author in 2009, twice went to the village, a total of nearly 40 days of participant observation and in-depth interviews. Through this article the description, hoping to provide is the author of China in Transition Plains spiritual and cultural life of rural women and morphological understanding. Perhaps, this understanding is not complete, incomplete, or even with a subjective bias, but it is in the context of the new era, the author of rural women in between the traditional and the modern, between religion and localization cut \\

"Soul Driven" or "God’s Call"

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