碩士 / 國立臺灣師範大學 / 應用華語文學系 / 101 / According to the statistic of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), from 1978 to 2012, approximately 2,644,700 Chinese studied abroad and 1,091,200 of them chose to return to China afterwards. The overseas Chinese students mainly studied in Christian countries and had more opportunities to contact with churches. Some of the Chinese students decided to be baptized and converted to Christianity. They then returned to PRC with a new identity--- Christian returnees.
Christian returnees did not merely face to the challenges of re-adaptation to the Chinese environment, but also the culture difference between western and Chinese churches. Under the restricted religion policy of PRC, Christian returnees who were baptized abroad need to learn the Chinese culture of gathering, for instance, the mobile gathering in house churches. To some extent, returnees’ Christian identity has even become an obstacle to employment, career life and spouse selection. Therefore, it is now a challenge to maintain the Christian identity and many returnees just give it up. For those returnees who still hold on Christianity, they have on the other hand become the connection between western churches and China with their multi-identities and ability to integrate trans-boundary resources. For example, numerous new styles of Christian enterprise, such as charities, returnee ministry and church alliance, have been created by the returnees with their international network and resources.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/101NTNU5046049 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Wang, Lin, 王琳 |
| Contributors | , 王秀惠, 蔡彥仁(政大宗教所) |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 143 |
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