Reassembling Christianity: Fuzhou Protestantism under China's Cultural Revolution from the Perspective of Life-history Research

基督教的再組裝：生命史中的文革時期福州基督新教

高晨揚(Chen-yang Kao)

《漢語基督教學術論評》 31期 (2021/06) Pp. 7-44

摘要

The twentieth century witnessed the remarkable growth of Protestantism in China despite attempts to eradicate religion during the Cultural Revolution. Employing Bruno Latour's actor-network theory (ANT) to analyze three Fuzhou Protestants' life histories, this paper explores how Protestantism gained strength during the Cultural Revolution despite the lack of conventional institutional resources. I argue that Fuzhou Protestantism in this period experienced an intensification of the dual process of disassembly and reassembly. When institutional Protestant Christianity was dissolved, the form of Protestantism that emerged during the Cultural Revolution increasingly enlisted indigenous-and ever more heterogeneous-elements as mediators of action. This reassembled Christian formation withstood the harsh suppression of the Cultural Revolution, but faced challenges in the Reform and Opening period.

關鍵字

Fuzhou ； protestantism ； the Cultural Revolution ； reassembly actor-network theory

並列摘要

中國基督新教經歷文化大革命時期的打壓却快速成長。本文應用布魯諾．拉圖的行動網絡理論分析三位福州地區基督徒的生命史敘事，探討在缺乏制度性資源的情況下，基督新教如何存在。本文指出文革時期福州基督新教經歷了拆解與再組裝過程的加劇化。當制度性基督教徹底瓦解，基督新教徵召大量本土與異質性元素作為行動的中介。這種混雜的基督教型態度過文革時期的打壓，卻在改革開放後面臨挑戰。

並列關鍵字

福州 ； 基督新教 ； 文化大革命 ； 再組裝 ； 行動網路理論

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