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Case Study of Contemporary Chinese Christian Church

Author: WangZuoZuo
Tutor: DaiKangSheng
School: Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Course: Religious Studies
Keywords: Bon orientation Religious orientation within the onset Outward orientation of religion
CLC: B97
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2000
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Existing 10 million followers of the Christian clergy, more than 18,000 people , the church more than 12,000 seats, at more than 25,000 congregations . ~ ① Beijing Christian believers existing 30,000 people, from 1994 to 1998 , the main Gui baptized believers more than 5,000 people , a total of 2.45 million people participated in the Beijing Church of the Church of the party , the party number was increasing trend . ~ ② 80 years Beijing has Christian 5,000 people in 1994 to 10,000 by 1997 grown to 20,000. On the development of speed, the 1980s to the 1990s , about 10 years had doubled since the mid- 1990s, about five years , but also doubled . In recent years, Beijing has more than a thousand year Christian baptism , baptized in 1997, the number of about 1,500 people , ~ ③ into the Church believers 360,000 passengers ; 1998 baptized persons basically unchanged from the previous year , into the hall number has more than 400,000 visitors . ~ ④ 1949 year, the Beijing Christian Church 72 namely , the believer 4891 people . 1958 years ago, Beijing has Christian Church 64 ; 1958 , the Beijing leaving four Christian churches . At present, the Beijing Christian Church 8 , in which the city has five ( Chongwenmen Church , Gangwashi church, Haidian Church Zhushikou Church and Broad Street Church ) , the suburbs have three ( Datong churches, Changping South Side church and Daxing former major camp Church ) . Clergymen 54 people : Priest ( Associate Pastor ) 34 people , the elders 6 people, catechists 14 people. Due to historical reasons, the Beijing mutually different circumstances of each church . Chongwenmen Church because of the country's political and diplomatic needs, there are external window task , political color darker. College District is located in Haidian church , culture and heavier, the church has its own website , you can preachers information released Sunday . Zhushikou church is located in the front door downtown , believers , mostly south of the outskirts of the faithful. Broad Street Church Avenue and demolition due to build peace , is still complex under construction , the church believers temporarily dispersed to different church Sunday . Gangwashi church located in the city center , in a religious environment has become more intense in areas east there Xishiku Catholic Church, there Guangji northward , southward there Xuanwumen Catholic Church, Haidian church front is not complex , the city in the northwest region mostly intellectuals come here to participate in religious activities ; same time, the Church is also in the city economically developed areas, can be described as Beijing 's most active Christian a church, the church up scheduled events , there is only Friday Sunday Church ( morning three Church in the afternoon in Korean one night a ) ; the Church also with the Seventh Day Adventists and in Korean believers share this Church were Sunday , Chongwenmen Church also accepted in Korean gathering of believers , but Beijing Adventist believers only at this one church OK Sunday , their religious activities . Gangwashi church influence abroad after Chongwenmen Church , which for historical reasons is that the church and Lao She and other cultural celebrities related Gangwashi Christian church often as a witness on Chinese society and culture, in particular the impact of modern culture period ; practical reasons , in the eighties and nineties the same group of intellectuals formed a community of believers , and promote the development of the church , so that the Church 's cultural characteristics more prominent , while the followers of the Church of the Church is more active than the other , so to the outside world ( including the U.S. Congress and the \I think , Gangwashi Church in the development of today's Chinese society , not only embodies the general characteristics of the Church in China , but also reflects the development of religion in a socialist society , has a certain irreplaceable role ; Christians are both members of religious groups , but also the entire society one can not be divorced from social and political , economic and cultural aspects of the impact of the development of Gangwashi Church from one side to better reflect the Chinese Christian Church 's growth and development process. So, I decided to \especially religious enough space in Beijing and the evolution of the church structure , deepen their understanding of the status of Beijing religion , religious researchers for domestic and actively guide further thinking about how to adapt to socialist society Bon problems and other interested parties to provide some religious policy formulation basis . I Gangwashi village hall for research , always in line with dialectical materialism and historical materialism as a guide, seek truth from facts , the only true only real , scientific and objective principles , and strive to fully and accurately grasp the inspection object . Thesis uses the sociological approach , data from land surveys and writing files. In order to improve the academic value of paper , and related classroom teacher in the teacher 's recommendation Bu , I will focus on mid- December 1999 to the end of March 2000 in-depth Gangwashi Church , for a period of three research activities in October . In the meantime , I participated in the following activities : the halls Christmas, New Year and Spring Festival celebrations important ; various general meetings and training courses activities ; family gatherings and youth fellowship activities ; visiting group activities and forced retreats ; and Xicheng District, attended the three-self group learning activities , church services and volunteers will be . Visited the main church clergy , Beijing two sessions, the person in charge , the other church pastor, the parish justice * , generally hundreds of believers and seminary students and other visitors , mostly for individual conversations , sometimes repeatedly interview. Thereby obtaining a number of authentic historical plant data and reality data for paper provides objective and useful basis . By Ding separate social research for me the first time ; Pat the research object - to teach death , unlike other social

Case Study of Contemporary Chinese Christian Church

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