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The Religious Discipline Organization Participation and Belief Process :Pu-hsin Temple of Fo-Gwang-Shan Individual Case Research

EPILOGUE
1.1 DATA SOURCE
This article endeavored to begin with the angle of culture, society alteration, and ¡§human Buddhism¡¨ string, combined with the qualitative and quantitative multiple data, to research the religious disciplines organization contact and participation, also its derived behaviors change and acknowledgement to the organization. The power comes from the disciplines reasonable ego-selection, to the religious organization interior operation, or the both powers interacted process, and to analyze the process major affected factors.
2.1 RELATIONSHIP RESEARCH
This research depends on the participation to the religious disciplines organization and belief behaviors, organization commitment (sense of belonging, sense of mission, and sense of identification) relationships.
The adopted research methods:
2.1.1 The first part is a profound interviews to collect the interviewers data, in the quality trending research process, specially mentioned 10 problems to 11 interviewers transacting the deep questionnaires, integrated and analyze, and to make the alteration quantities table of believe behaviors cleared for the physical/mental ego-adjustment, Buddhism understanding and altruistic three contents.
2.1.2 The second part depends on the questionnaires method, the contents consist of believe behaviors alteration in 14 problems, organization consent 14 problems, adopting Liker type 5 points quantities mark method, ¡§very agreed¡¨, ¡§agreed¡¨, ¡§no comment¡¨, ¡§not agreed¡¨ and ¡§very not agreed¡¨ to give the mark 5 to 1. The analyzing degree reached the reliableness, and built this questinnaires contents and specialist validity.
2.2 QUESTIONNAIRES DATA ANALYZE
2.2.1 To analyze the organization participation situation, including:
(1) How many years to join the Pu-hsien Temple seminars.
(2) Ever joined the Pu-hsien Temple Buddhist regious ritual.
(3) To join the Pu-hsien Temple ¡§Community academy¡¨ activities.
(4) To instate the Pu-hsien Temple volunteers work.
(5) Times of instating the Fo Gwang subordinated branch works.
2.2.2 To analyze the belief behaviors alteration situation., including:
(1) Whether formally devoted as a Buddhist.
(2) The degrees of purification.
(3) To practice the ascetic including the ascetical degree and self education.
2.2.3 The belief behaviors alteration after studying the Buddhism.
2.2.4 Commitment to the organization. (Sense of belonging, sense of mission and sense of affirmation).
3.1 DATA ANALYZE:
3.1.1 To generalize the questionnaires and interview data for analyzing, there are some conclusions:
(1) To join the Pu-hsien Temple activities, the personal family supporting degrees had the strong torsion relationship.
(2) To join the religious organization network were mostly through the introduction of friends. No introduction and automatically and willing to join the Pu-hsien Temple were learnt from the Fo-Gwang-Shan published magazines, newspaper, tapes and CD.
(3) The disciplines joined the religious organization were based on the organization it-self offered the multiple activities, and the personal demands to join the religion organization were the second.
(4) The disciplines joined the Pu-hsien Temple various activities were more the religious organization attraction layers, and less the personal demands layers.
(5) To joined the Pu-hsien Temple ¡§Community academy¡¨ activities and Pu-hsien Temple religious rituals activities, the participation
motives including the personal, family, Buddhism and Pu-hsien Temple four factors were no different.
(6) The disciples ascetic degrees, fasting behaviors and ascetic self educations were different to join the Pu-hsien Temple different religious rituals. The disciples ascetic degrees, fasting behaviors alteration were obviously different to join the Pu-hsine Temple ¡§Community Academy¡¨ selecting Buddhism, arts, but self education no difference.
(7) The disciples to join the Pu-hsien Temple religious rituals got obvious difference in the belief behaviors alteration ¡§integrate layers¡¨, to select the ¡§weekly religious rituals¡¨ commitment to the organization were the highest, ¡§monthly religious rituals¡¨ the second and the ¡§bimonthly religious rituals¡¨ were the lowest. The various disciples to join the Pu-hsien Temple ¡§Community academy¡¨ selecting Buddhism, arts were no obvious difference in the ¡§integrate layers¡¨ organization commitment.
(8) The disciples had four background factors (sex, age, education and vocations) not showed the difference from the organizations commitment , but ¡§ever believed¡¨ had the obvious difference from the organization commitment.
(9) The more years to join the Pu-hsien Temple, the more to joined the Pu-hsien Temple activities, the more to joined the religious ritual, the more to instate the volunteers, more to instate the Fo-Gwang subordinate branch works, it increased more for ascetical practice behaviors including the ascetical degree behaviors, and self-education.
(10) The more years to join the Pu-hsien Tmeple, the more to join the activities, the more to join the religious rituals, the more to instate the volunteers, the more to instate the Fo-Gwang subordinate works, it increased in the believe behaviors, organization commitment alteration.
3.2 CONCLUSIONS:
To conclude the above-mentioned results, the Pu-hsien Tgemple offered many kinds of study process, as the religious group interior socialization, no doubt is very successful. So that it is known that the Pu-hsien Temple of Fo-Gwong-Shan
can attract so many people to join, the raising members and organization management, is also successful. Compare it to recent Taiwan religious vitally development, it expressed the certain traceable veining.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0724102-111059
Date24 July 2002
CreatorsKao, Ya-Hsin
ContributorsStanley.T.Lee, none, none
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0724102-111059
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