晚清潮汕浸礼教会建构的历史进程

The Historical Process of Baptist Church Construction in Late Imperial Chaoshan

晚清时期,潮汕地区浸礼教会建构的历史进程先以礐石堂为中心点向外扩散到各个县,然后通过每个县向下传播发展出许多个面,最后通过教会联系塑造出一个跨县域的图景。教会网络在不断扩展的进程中被赋予新的内容,挑战了地方社会原有的权力框架。有些平信徒利用自己的血缘、地缘等本土关系网络,以教会为平台,逐渐将基督教嵌入到社区结构中。

In late imperial Chaoshan, the contruction of Baptist church was first started in districts surrounding Kakchieh church, then Christianity disseminated in those districts, and finally formed a cross-district landscape through some church activities. In the process,church network was given new content and challenged the already existing power structure in local society. Some Baptist used their local relation network, such as consanguinity and geographical connections, to implant Christianity in the community structure gradually.