嵌入与再生产——一个华北村落基督教信仰的民间逻辑

Embedding and Reproducing:A Case Study of a Christianity Village in North China

基督教在汉人村落社会的传播,不仅要依靠与地方传统的融合与互动,同时还需要将宗教转化为具有功能的组织、身份等社会结构,以嵌入民间的世俗生活的方式得以存在。随着村落社会的变迁,人们需要将基督教信仰作为一种社会结构和心智结构不断再生产。在适应社会变迁的同时,基督教只有回归其文化面向,才能实现在现代性过程中的延续和再造。宗教信仰的长期维系需要社会和文化层面的共同作用。基督教信仰在村落社会的运转,依赖于在既有的地方传统和社会结构基础上形成的民间逻辑。

The spread of Christianity in rural communities of Han people not only relies on its blend and interaction with local traditions,but also needs the conversion of religion into social structure with functional organization and identity,and then the religion could maintain its existence by embedding itself into the local secular life.Along with the changes of rural communities,the Christian faith needs to be reproduced as a kind of social structure and mental structure.Only by returning to its cultural perspective as well as adapting to the social changes can it sustain and be reproduced in the process of modernization.The long-term maintenance of religious belief requires a joint action of society and culture.The running of Christianity in rural communities depends on the folk logic formed on the basis of local traditions and social structure.