乡村中学生基督徒的文化冲突与文化适应 基于甘肃W村的田野调查

Cultural Conflicts and Acculturation of Christian Students in Middle Schools: Based on the Fieldwork of Village W,Gansu Province

本文通过对甘肃省一个基督徒较为集中的村庄的田野研究,探讨了乡村中学生基督徒在日常生活和社会化过程中,由于同时接触中国传统文化、基督教文化和科学文化而经历的文化冲突和由此引发的文化适应问题。研究发现,宗教风俗的冲突给中学生基督徒带来的文化冲突较为普遍,不过,中国人集体主义取向的应对模式,"人情"大于"神情"的宗教观,在一定程度上有助于消解这些冲突;对中学生基督徒来说,初中时期是一个转折期,学校主导的科学知识得到更多的认可,对宗教知识产生了疑问,随之信仰产生了分化。

Based on the fieldwork of Village W, Gansu Province, where many Christians live, this paper discusses the issues in the cultural conflicts and consequential acculturation experienced by Christian students in rural middle schools as they encounter the Chinese traditional culture, Christian culture, and scientific culture in their daily life and socialization. The study has found that cultural conflicts from different religious practices are common to the Christian students. However, Chinese people＇s collectivistic coping mode and the religious belief of personal relations above religious relations have helped resolving such conflicts to some extent. To middle-school Christian students, junior high school is a period of transition, that is, scientific knowledge acquired in school is gradually recognized and religious knowledge gets questioned; consequently, their religious faith is diversified.