碩士 / 臺北市立教育大學 / 社會學習領域教學碩士學位學程 / 101 / This thesis seeks to clarify the significance and function of the Christian-based community organizations for overseas Taiwanese immigrants in the recent 30 years. It aims to show how the Chinese Christian church helps with the life adaptation of the first-generation immigrants from Taiwan. Rooted in the concept of social capital, this thesis focuses on three main issues. The first focus is placed on how the Christian church, the network of relationships, constitutes a valuable resource and provides the immigrants with the collective-owned capital. The second concern of the research is to find out how the immigrants constitute a shared cognition, and what the common symbols and collective narratives are within the community. And the last part of the research is to observe what types of the relationships exist between the immigrant and the church.
By means of in-depth interviews, this research has found out that the overseas Chinese Christian church functions as social capital and plays an important role in terms of the structural, cognitive, and relational dimensions. Overseas Taiwanese immigrants are able to develop primary and intimate relationships in the church through the network established by the church. In the process of social exchange and combination accompanied with the instruction from the Bible, the church members may gain abundant and substantial social capital and the church-based network gets to sustain in its organic balancing. With the purpose of oneness, the Christian church helps the immigrants overcome the barriers from individual difference, class distinction, and national boundaries. Through the gospel in every good land, the overseas Chinese church helps the immigrants socially and spiritually when they are confronted with challenges and difficulties.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/101TMTC5201023 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | 陳美莉 |
| Contributors | 徐榮崇 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 148 |
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