苦难与改教:河南三地乡村民众改信基督教的社会根源探析

Suffering and Conversion:the Exploration on Social Causes of Peasant's Conversion to Christianity in Henan Province

社会转型期,在充满不确定性和社会风险的状况下,原子式个人必须独自承担社会风险与苦难。苦难,是河南乡村民众人生的危机和生命转折,成为他们反思自我、发现宗教之功能与意义的主要契机。由于佛道衰微及基督徒传教的主动性强,处于社会底层的乡村民众接触基督教进而改信基督教的可能性较大。但面对社会苦难,乡村基督教所能提供的只是赋予苦难以意义,并互相帮助以减轻个体所遭受的苦难。面对造成社会苦难的原因,基督教所能解决的是极其微小的部分。换言之,政府有更大的空间与社会资源来帮助乡村民众应对社会苦难。

The atomic individual has to face the social risk under the circumstances of a lot of uncertainties during the social transformation.Suffering marks life and family crisis of people in rural area in Henan province,which becomes the main opportunities for people to reflect themselves and find the function and meaning of religions.It is more likely for Rural People at the bottom of society to contact Christianity and convert to it,when people face the declining of Buddhism and Daoism and active Christianity.Rural Christianity could only endow suffering with meaning and help to relieve the individual suffering.Christianity could solve small part of problems,in other words,there could be further to go for government to help people in rural area deal with social suffering.