佛教在家信徒皈信歷程之研究-以苗栗銅鑼九華山大興善寺信徒為例=Religious Conversion of the Buddhist Laity:The Case study of Tongluo Jiouhuashan Da Sing Shan Monastery in Miaoli County
This study has investigated Religious conversion of the Buddhist laity─ The case study of Tongluo Jiouhuashan Da Sing Shan Monastery in Miaoli County is chosen as example. Meanwhile, qualitative research method is used to perform in-depth interview to collect data, then the grounded theory is used for the analysis so as to complete the investigation of Religious conversion of the Buddhist laity. According to the research, it was found that Religious conversion of the Buddhist laity can be divided roughly into five parts: 1. The first encountering karma: Family member, friend, colleague, neighbor and teacher in the social network is the main contact network, in addition, it also includes the danger of personal life and the participation of religious activity, etc. 2. From the contact to the conversion stage: It mainly starts from the realization of personal pray in a group, or the experiencing of special religious sensing. Moreover, in order to pay back the religious group, the person selects to give more donations to the group. 3. The development in the conversion process: In the conversion process, each believer will have to face personal, family or the social promoting and hindering factor, at this stage, the believer usually will be accompanied with the emergence of special religious experience. 4. Change before and after the conversion: At this stage, the believer will have to experience internal psychological and external behavior conversion. 5. The entire view on the believing process of the Chiu-Hua Shan: We have found that the religious belief of the believer was influential in the charisma of the religious leader. Finally, the researcher has compared the research result and related theory and made the research conclusion and self-examination for this article.
