In this holistic, multiple-case, replication study, key informant interviews, focus group interviews, documents, and field notes were gathered, coded, and analyzed from three stratified, randomly selected Hmong C&MA churches to discover the family ministry perceptions and practices of these Hmong churches. These family ministry perceptions and practices were then compared to the religious education of children within the traditional Hmong religion in order to identify areas for contextualization. The Hmong are a collective, clan-kinship, indigenous people group of southern China and Southeast Asia who converted to Christianity in 1949 through the missionary work of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA). Prior to conversion, the Hmong practiced animism, shamanism, ancestral worship, and reincarnation. Children were religiously instructed through informal, oral, experiential, and intergenerational learning. The home was the central shrine for religious instruction via altars, offerings, sacrifices, and rituals. Fathers were the primary religious instructors of children, followed by clan spirit fathers, and the shaman and religious experts. Through this research, it was discovered that since conversion, the Hmong churches have experienced a paradigm shift in the religious education of their children: from an oral, informal, ritual-oriented, home-centered, father-led religious education paradigm to a literate, semi-formal, classroom-oriented, church-centered, pastor-led Christian education paradigm. The segmented programmatic model of family ministry was established in the early Hmong church by C&MA missionaries, and has continued to be perpetuated in the three case studies. The age-segmented children’s church and Sunday school were the principle Christian education programs utilized in these churches. The effects of the segmented programmatic family model in the Hmong churches have been both positive and negative. Some children have been evangelized and discipled in the Christian faith. Some have drifted from the Christian faith due to lack of parental involvement, and the lack of mature adult teachers. To develop a more contextualized family ministry within the Hmong church context, children need to be equally valued, fathers elevated as primary spiritual leaders, the home re-established as the center for Christian education, and intergenerational mentoring increased so that Christian faith can be transmitted to the next generations.

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何丹鵬. / "二〇〇九年九月". / "2009 nian 9 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 355-363). / Abstract in Chinese and English. / He Danpeng. / Chapter 第一章 --- 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節 --- 研究背景 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二節 --- 龍勝概況 --- p.2 / Chapter 第三節 --- 伶話簡介 --- p.3 / Chapter 第四節 --- 調查情況 --- p.4 / Chapter 第二章 --- 伶話語音糸統 --- p.6 / Chapter 第一節 --- 聲韻調糸統 --- p.6 / Chapter 第二節 --- 聲調調值的分析 --- p.8 / Chapter 第三節 --- 連讀變調 --- p.16 / Chapter 第四節 --- 聲韻調配合關係 --- p.23 / Chapter 第五節 --- 伶話同音字表 --- p.55 / Chapter 第三章 --- 伶話聲母的古今演變與層次 --- p.78 / Chapter 第一節 --- 中古聲母與伶話今讀比較表 --- p.78 / Chapter 第二節 --- 全濁聲母今讀的層次 --- p.80 / Chapter 第三節 --- 幫、非組聲母今讀的層次 --- p.91 / Chapter 第四節 --- 泥'來母今讀的層次 --- p.95 / Chapter 第五節 --- 端、知組聲母今讀的層次 --- p.96 / Chapter 第六節 --- 精、莊、知、章組聲母今讀的層次 --- p.99 / Chapter 第七節 --- 見組聲母今讀的層次 --- p.108 / Chapter 第八節 --- 曉、匣母今讀的層次 --- p.113 / Chapter 第九節 --- 影、喻母今讀的層次 --- p.117 / Chapter 第四章 --- 伶話韻母的古今演變與層次 --- p.122 / Chapter 第一節 --- 中古韻母與伶話今讀比較表 --- p.122 / Chapter 第二節 --- 果、假攝韻母今讀的層次 --- p.125 / Chapter 第三節 --- 純四等韻母今讀的層次 --- p.130 / Chapter 第四節 --- 梗、曾攝韻母今讀的層次 --- p.136 / Chapter 第五節 --- 陽、人聲韻母今讀的層次 --- p.142 / Chapter 第五章 --- 伶話聲調的古今演變與層次 --- p.150 / Chapter 第一節 --- 古平聲今讀的層次 --- p.152 / Chapter 第二節 --- 古上聲今讀的層次 --- p.159 / Chapter 第三節 --- 古去聲今讀的層次 --- p.160 / Chapter 第四節 --- 古人聲今讀的層次 --- p.163 / Chapter 第五節 --- 小結 --- p.164 / Chapter 第六章 --- 結語 --- p.168 / Chapter 附錄一： --- 伶話字音對照表（附苗話、桂林話） --- p.172 / Chapter 附錄二： --- 伶話分類詞表 --- p.281 / Chapter 附錄三： --- 伶話語法例句 --- p.341 / Chapter 附錄四： --- 伶話語料 --- p.351 / 主要參考文獻 --- p.355

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