社会事业视角下云南少数民族地区近代基督教的传播

The Spread of Modern Christianity in the Minority Areas of Yunnan from the Perspective of Social Undertakings

近代基督教传入云南后,传统的以城镇为中心的传教策略受到严重挑战,教会和传教士遂将传教重点转移到了云南少数民族地区。在向云南少数民族地区传教过程中,教会开展了教育、医疗卫生、文字创制以及新生活方式的倡导等一系列基督教社会事业,并在较短的时间内吸纳了大量少数民族信徒。然而,以基督教社会事业作为载体和传播手段的基督教传教活动并不是一帆风顺的,这其中常伴随着纠纷与冲突,而以文字教育事业和新生活方式倡导为代表的基督教社会事业,对促进基督教在近代云南少数民族地区的传播、教育水平的提高和对生活方式的改变产生积极影响的同时,其传教和殖民主义意图也对民族团结和云南少数民族传统文化的传承与发展造成了危机和挑战。

After the introduction of Christianity to Yunnan,the traditional urban-centered missionary strategy has been seriously challenged,so the church and missionary shifted to the minority areas of Yunnan. In the process of missionary work in ethnic minority areas of Yunnan,the church launched a series of Christian social undertakings,such as education,health care,character creation and the advocacy of new lifestyles,and absorbed a large number of minority believers in a relatively short time. However,Christian missionary activities based on Christian social undertakings as a carrier and means of communication are not smooth sailing,which are often accompanied by disputes and conflicts. The education of characters and a new way of life advocates as the representative of the Christian social undertakings,which promote the dissemination of Christianity in modern Yunnan minority areas,had a positive impact on the improvement of education level and changed the way of life,at the same time,the missionary and colonial intentions also caused the crisis and challenges on the inheritance and development of national unity and Yunnan traditional culture of ethnic minorities.