The Practice and Expression of "Christ to the Countryside" Based on the Field Investigation and Thinking of Wu Village in South Gannan

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10.2991/cesses-19.2019.271How to use a DOI?

Keywords

rural Christianity; folk traditions; clan villages; public cultural life; social risk

Abstract

This paper, taking a village in Gannan of Jiangxi as a case, the process of the spread of Christianity in the rural areas as the breakthrough point, on the basis of the fieldwork data, through the Wu Village rural Christianity and the inner mechanism of the development and practice of logic, to reflect on the state, market, and village against the background of interaction; the contemporary Chinese rural Christian communication strategy has been deeply embedded into the real life world of farmers, rural society and the cultural structure, the political and economic structure and the farmer's deep psychological structure of the interaction. From the practical logic of "Christ goes to the countryside", it can be found that the existence and development of rural Christianity have certain positive functions for the harmony and stability of rural social order and the reconstruction and enrichment of rural social public life, but there are also some hidden social risks.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jiafeng Wu
AU  - Jing He
PY  - 2019/10
DA  - 2019/10
TI  - The Practice and Expression of "Christ to the Countryside" Based on the Field Investigation and Thinking of Wu Village in South Gannan
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 1220
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/cesses-19.2019.271
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