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

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

+ 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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