The Construction And Expression Of The Religious Authority

The Shankou church , belonging to the True Jesus church , is situated in H city of N province. The Shankou church has rapidly developed and became the most influenced and biggest church in the H city since 1999 when it was established. But, during its developing process, the Shankou church appeared between the church interior differentiation, the church and other Christianity faction's competition and the contradiction, the church and between the religion control section arrives.The developing process of Shankou church is not only a question about how a church develops, in which interweaves all kinds of complex relations such as standpoint contradiction, the authority capture, the benefit conflict and so on. These complex relations may all be integrated to religious authority. Therefore, this article attempts to discuss and explain case from angle of authority.First chapter and the second chapter is the introduction of the paper. First chapter mainly dill with the research' s background, origin and the process, the literature summary as well as the research' s question and significance. The second chapter mainly concern two aspects of the theory and the method, specifically including "the construction and expression of the religious authority"this concept connotation and the dialogue with the religious market theory and the classical religious sociology theory, the technique and the process in research.The following two chapters are about the introduction of background and situation of the case. The third chapter is about the history of the True Jesus church, ecological environment and social structure position the Christianity' s history and the present situation in H city. So we may set at the Shankou church in the macroscopic historical background and the social culture inspect and effectively understand the the following chapters.In this article the main body is from the fifth chapter to the eighth chapter.Concretely saying, the fifth chapter mainly dill with each kind of religious activities and the ceremony in the Shankou church in "the outline drawing" the way. These ceremonies and the symbol both were allowed to express the authority, and was allowed to create and again to make the authority. Through these ceremonies and the activity, the church authority permeates in the letter audiences, simultaneously reproduces for the letter numerous communities through these ceremonies and the activity.Sixth chapter mainly "tells the story" in the narrative way about how the church from three illegal meetings merges establishment for the legitimate church process, and narrated two religious outstanding people character - Liu and Yang. Through these stories narrations, the legitimate authority these two concepts which entrusted with for the discussion herd authority and the administration has provided the very good source material in fact.Seventh chapter and the eighth chapter in detail elaborated complex interaction relations between the Shankou church and the Huqu church and the religious administration strength. The seventh chapter mainly described the Shankou church in the explanation of "Holy Bible", capture the contradiction which the follower and Christianity two meetings aspect and the Huqu church and so on. Eighth chapter mainly dill with the phenomenon discussed some entanglement between the Shankou church and the religious bureau. These two chapters are key points of this article, because these two chapter of contents present the question straight refers to this research the theory attention spot, namely the construction way and the expression way of the religious authority.In the foundation of the western theoretician concerned authority discusses, the paper defines "the religious authority" as" a multiple construct constituted of the herd authority expressed by the clergy , the theology authority obtained by Holy Bible , symbolic authority bearing in the religious rite as well as the correlation administration strength entrusts with the valid authority. They directly express organization ability which operates church, the condensation ability which is acting on interior followers, as well as interaction ability existing between other social organizations, the religious organization and even the national administration words ".The structure of Religious authority is by no means sole structure, but one kind of the composite structure which contain four kinds of authoritative types constitutes. The religious authority means a kind of "the social structure" just as Giddens said, including two aspects of causes the mobility (enabling) and the restriction (constraining).The paper will use "the construction and expression of the religious authority " this concept to summarize a series of events taking place in the Shankou church. I hope you do not have too excessively to concentrate "the religious authority" this concept itself, but put emphasis in " the construction and expression of the religious authority " the process, including all kinds of relations, the benefit and the structure.Which this research did may quite be also limited. This research was thoroughly discussed the case, but this research only propose a very good question, open this kind of foundation if it is put on more macroscopic background word. I hope this paper will help us to have a more profound understanding regarding in Chinese modern society reforming and the vicissitude religious phenomenon.