Survey on Rural Residents’ Religion—A Case of Christian Faith of Z Village’s Residents in South Henan

DOI

10.2991/hss-26.2016.72How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Countryside, Christianity, Positive function, New countryside construction.

Abstract

Since the reform and opening up, especially in recent years, Christianity has been developing rapidly in the countryside, which has a huge impact on rural social governance. Combined with fieldwork and combing literature, a thorough investigation into Z village had been taken to acquire the condition of local residents’ Christian faith, further the reason of Christian expansion and Christian social function have been dissected. The results show that low entry threshold, localization reform, preaching innovation and concerning Christians, etc. are important factors of Christian expansion rapidly in rural areas. What’s more, Christianity starts to become a positive force to maintain social order, improve social interaction and raise the public morality.

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© 2016, 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  - Junhua Wang
AU  - Yexi Zhong
AU  - Shuming Bao
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TI  - Survey on Rural Residents’ Religion—A Case of Christian Faith of Z Village’s Residents in South Henan
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Humanities and Social Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 432
EP  - 438
SN  - 2352-5398
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