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Identity Forming Of Local Christian

Posted on:2012-01-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L MengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330335968658Subject:Political Theory
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Identity is a cognition of individual in the society status, and the construction of identity was affected by many factors. Through a research on the daily life of christianizers from one of the village of province Henan. This thesis try to explore the identification of christian's identity and the way of constructed nowadays.The main reason christian converted to christianity include family faith, disease, converted for safety. Christianity is an institutional religion, the christianizer who has definite identity symbolize which can be perform through their language, way of thinking and their behaviour. The christianzer separate the villagers in two of different group, in which is believe in god and another one who is not., and this partitioning already become a guideline to regconize us or them.The religious life to a Christian, including Keeping chapels, Daily party, prayers,The eucharist, Baptism and religious celebrations, those of this religionary activities enforced their identity of being Christian.. In addition, deepening their understanding of christianity as well as enhance the sense of belonging to group.The process of christian identification and constructed also a process of secularization of christianity. Christian try to find out an intersection of the interaction between christianity and traditional culture. And then, by transformed the locally traditional culture, the christianity in community life can be express into localized.Christianity integrate into rural community consequentially influenced the community relationship network and community's life. Although christianity has changed the disciple's thought, behaviour and also their daily life, but it is difficult to eliminate the traditional beliefs and custom's influence to the rural christianizer. For those who are grew up in the traditional environment, they are hard to be rid of the custom culture and the traditionary social networks. Disciple convert to christianity still play a role in their community social life. As a conclusion, atlhough christianity have affected social network in the rural community, but not in an effective way.
Keywords/Search Tags:Christian, identification, identity organing
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