Changes in religious life, beliefs in this period in Dong Anh district

Chapter 1: The context of religious life, beliefs, Dong Anh district. Chapter 2: Variation of religious life, religion and its relationship to social life in Dong Anh district the current period. Chapter 3: Trends of changes in religious life and beliefs in Dong Anh district and the issues raised.

Changes in religious life, beliefs in this period

in Dong Anh district Nguyễn Thị Thanh Hòa

Viện Việt Nam học và Khoa học Phát triển Luận văn Thạc sĩ Chuyên ngành: Việt Nam học; Mã số: 60 31 60

Người hướng dẫn khoa học: PGS.TS Đỗ Quang Hưng

Năm bảo vệ: 2012

Abstract Chapter 1: The context of religious life, beliefs, Dong Anh district Chapter

2: Variation of religious life, religion and its relationship to social life in Dong Anh district the current period Chapter 3: Trends of changes in religious life and beliefs in Dong Anh district and the issues raised

Keywords Xã hội học tôn giáo; Tín ngưỡng; Đời sống tôn giáo; Đông Anh; Việt Nam

học; Niềm tin

Content

INTRODUCTION PART

1 Imperative of the topic

Being one-thousand-year land, Hanoi has existed with plenty of profound cultural value hidden from the past to contemporary life Spirituality is an important part of the precious heritages which Hanoi has always been preserving until present Facing the reforming period especially the urbanization trend, variations in religious life and religious issues are becoming the Party, the State concern The research tends to emphasize on the variables for religious life and belief in Dong Anh district - a typical suburban districts of Hanoi to show the interaction between economic and social life with religious life in the context of contemporary society On that basis, the writer offers solutions to promote the values of religious life and belief in a positive way, in accordance with the laws of the development process of urbanization in Hanoi today

Dong Anh, which is an ancient suburban area of Hanoi, is a convergence of many cultural values including both physical and spiritual values of the capital In recent years, Dong Anh has also been known as the area with strong regional process of urbanization The strong development of local economy and innovation in social activities have led to changes

in regilious activities along with the content of religion,worshiping ritual of the people within the suburban district Therefore, the topic focuses on analyzing the impact of two-way relationship between religious faith and economic, social life and vice versa to clarify changes

in the spiritual life nowadays

Religious belief is an important part of cultural and spiritual life, so changes in religious life, beliefs in Dong Anh also contribute to the addition of private meaningful data about the cultural field of Hanoi in contemporary life On the basis of the solution, proposed

by the authors propose the thesis, the religious officials in Dong Anh district are in charge of implementing the policy on religion, belief in an consistent and effective way, with the aspiration of people in the district

For these above reasons, the topic "Changes in religious life, beliefs in this period in Dong Anh district" has been chosen as the direction of the research thesis

2 The context of research topic

Until present, there have been many researches on changes in religious life and belief

in Vietnam as well as many works in the areas of Hanoi which refers to aspects religious beliefs Therefore, we can name some books on religious beliefs in this area For instance,

"Dai Nam nhat thong chi" Episode 4 referring to the popular belief in Ha Bac and Son Tay including Dong Anh or "Geographical media" by Do Trong Vi, Cultural Information Publishing House (1998) mentioning the customs and beliefs of Bac Ninh, a section of ancient Dong Anh

The work "Ha Bac aboriginal style Le dynasty" by Ha Bac Company culture, published in 1971 also included a part about beliefs Dong Anh Besides, there was also the book " a-thousand- year Hanoi" by Vu Tuan, Tran Quoc Vuong which was available to the issue of religion and belief in the suburbs of Hanoi, including Dong Anh district Particularly, the series of reports, "The Village" by Ngo Tat described quite clearly the worshiping activities in the villages in Dong Anh, the hometown of the writer

Nonetheless, those books, apart from the work of "Dong Anh with thousand years of Thang Long - Hanoi" by Bui Xuan Dinh, Ha Noi Publishing House in 2010, did not mention much about the context of religion in Dong Anh In this book, the author wrote about Dong Anh as an overview including natural conditions, social, festivals, folklore, particularly academic tradition of this land without mentioning many aspects of religious beliefs

The book "The life of religion, belief Thang Long - Hanoi" by Prof Dr Do Quang Hung, Ha Noi Publishing House, 2010 has pointed out the features of the great religions in

Thang Long - Hanoi The book provided with valuable material on the living definition of religious life and beliefs of people in Hanoi during the current period In addition, "Address

of the Speaker," by the authors of the Institute of Vietnam and scientific development, published in 2006 was also a need for resources when deploying the writer threads In this work the authors studied many aspects of Co Loa commune in depth, such as natural conditions, society, history and culture, especially one part of the book tended to reflect the religion and beliefs of the Co Loa area, a commune of Dong Anh district

Also there have been some scattered articles on various aspects such as the urbanization process, the Co Loa Festival, cultural heritages of Dong Anh published in newspapers and magazines

So far no particular work has directly mentioned the changes in religious life, beliefs within Dong Anh area during the innovation process or exploited this aspect by analyzing two-way interaction between social life in the process of innovation to the cultural life of the spiritual current period Therefore, it can be confirmed that the dissertation topic is the first study to refer to the changes in religious life and belief in Dong Anh district in the process of urbanization The research is expected to provide more practical and meaningful material for those who care about religious life and beliefs in this area

3 The aim of the thesis research

The implementation of project "Changes religious life, beliefs in this period in Dong Anh district" firstly sketches the picture of the activities of religious life and beliefs in Dong Anh district during the reforming period then it deeply analyze the two-way interaction between economic, society life and the changes in religious life, beliefs in the reforming process

In addition, it also refers to the policies of the Party and State on religion, belief, and the implementation of the Resolution in the specific case of Dong Anh district (Hanoi)

4 Objects and scope of the thesis research

Scope of the thesis research is to understand the transformation of religious life and belief in Dong Anh district (Hanoi) Due to the limited time of execution, the research only analyzes the community of Catholics in Dai Bang and Mai Chau village because it is reported that these two villages gain the highest concentration of Catholics within the area of Dong Anh Additionally, the research also Exploits the transformation of Buddhism and the cult of King An Duong Vuong in Co Loa commune, the area with a number of Buddhists and exciting Buddhist activities along with the famous Co Loa festival in and out of place on the

6th of January On the other hand, Vong La commune is chosen to become the study of ancestral worshiping belief because it has become the most urbanized place within this district Finally, Viet Hung commune is the scope of the research on the changes in folk religion because there were many mysterious true stories inside this area widespread among folk community

The main purpose of the research is to understand the economic situation - in the process of social innovation and its impact on the existence of religious beliefs in Dong Anh district in the process of urbanization

Thesis-depth analysis of the changes of religious life, beliefs forms the characteristics

of those changes in the current period In particular, it explores the repercussions of climate change, religious life, beliefs affecting economic, social life in Dong Anh district

Since then, the thesis offers some observations and forecasts of trends in religious life and belief in the district as well as proposes some solutions to promote positive values of religious life to the economic, cultural, social life in Dong Anh during the urbanization process

5 The methodology of the thesis

The research used the methodology of religious education and specific methods of sociology and anthropology of religion, such as:

+ Method of collecting, synthesizing

+ Method of statistical analysis

+ Comparison method which gets the results obtained in the thesis,

These methods are implemented by specific actions such as: field trips, up questionnaires, depth interviews, retrospective survey, survey forms

In addition, the thesis has used interdisciplinary methods: application of the results of many scientific fields such as economics, sociology, geography, history, education, analysis and logic to find out the transformation of religion and belief

6 Contribution of the thesis

First contribution of the thesis is the variable-depth analysis of religious life, beliefs and the typical two-way relationship between religious life and beliefs of economic, social life

of the people in Dong Anh during the process of urbanization

On the other hand, it has made some forecasts of trends in religious life, beliefs and proposed some solutions to promote the positive elements in the religious life and beliefs to develop social economic development of the Dong Anh district now and in the future

7 Layout thesis

Thesis is organized into three chapters:

- Chapter 1: The context of religious life, beliefs, Dong Anh district

- Chapter 2: Changes in religious life, religion and its relation with social - economic life in Dong Anh district the current period

- Chapter 3: Tendency of changess in religious life, belife Dong Anh district beliefs and questions

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