Risk of Health, Social Security and Villagers' Choice of Religious Beliefs in Rural China
Author | : Jiang Jinqi |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
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After the reform and opening, “religious belief fevers” can be seen in many regions of rural China. Using a rural household dataset from Song County in He Nan Province, this research, by a Logit regression model, has analyzed the key factors that affect the religion choices of the villagers, and has found that age, gender, political stand, risk of health and individual social security level have important interpretation on the choices. On this basis, focuses of researches paid attentions to the internal logic of “religious belief due to sickness” of the villagers, and pointed out that due to governments long period backing out of the basic public service resulting in the severe insufficiency of public service are already causing an notable increase of risks of health faced by villagers, this has largely boosted the “revival” of religious belief in the villages.