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Wen Jiang's Temple Rebuilt

Posted on:2005-05-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S H LanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360122486718Subject:Anthropology
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The Paper mainly aims at the reasons analysis of the temples reconstruction of Wenjiang city,Hunan Province in the 1990's. It is no doubt that these reasons for numerous temples reconstruction are complex and diversified.First of all,I divided all the temples of Wenjiang into three types,classified people who organized the temple reconstruction into four types of people who organized the temple reconstruction,Moreover,I discussed the Faith healing,which caused two types of people to reconstruct temples. Faith healing is treated to be individual's experience or mysteriously learned through one's personal experience,Although we can't make rightful interpretation to the Faith healing scientifically , we can not repudiate its significant sense to the sufferers.Then,I explored the reconstruction process and reasons of two "other -type" temples in detail.The reconstruction of Baoguang temple was organized by the Wenjiang government,with purpose of economy development,the temple being the "lures for CapitaP'.The reconstruction of Baohong Temple reveals the inverse relationshipbetween lay Buddhist and disciples and the fundamental problem-the forfeits ofreligion connotation.Confroning such a predicament ,some disciples and scholars have proposed a lot of suggestion,and I added some proposals too.I hope that these proposals be able to obtain appreciation of the relative department and carry through as soon as possible.Finally,I still turned my eyes on the "Taciturn majority -Popular temples. Themain concern of this section are the facial/real reason for reconstruction of the popular temples, and the old-aged entertainment in the temples.In short All of these phenomna expressed the creativity of persons who are affected by the social culture.So I used P.Bourdieu and A.Giddens's perspctive about the interrelationship between "social culture and individual's agency" :Man living in restriction produced restriction to our world,Restriction and production are not embodied in the great events historicallyjbut more are achieved by means of the everyday life practice .Contemporarily,I discussed the interrelationship between the discause in the monumental inscription and the real causes of the temples reconstruction,the conclusion is that culture has a "varnishing"attribute-culture as mystification.
Keywords/Search Tags:Temple, Reconstruction, Anthropology, Religion, Culture
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