2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Influence of Globalization on Church-State Relationship in Contemporary China: A Research on Local and Global Chinese Protestants and Churches
Project/Area Number |
20K13289
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Review Section |
Basic Section 04030:Cultural anthropology and folklore-related
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Research Institution | Meiji Gakuin University |
Principal Investigator |
Murakami Shiho 明治学院大学, キリスト教研究所, 研究員 (90526790)
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Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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Keywords | 中国プロテスタント / 宗教政策 / 国際教会 / グローバル化 / 海帰キリスト教徒 / 華人キリスト教コミュニティ |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study originally planned to conduct research among Protestant churches in China, with the aim of analyzing the actual state of globalization of the environment surrounding religion, the state of diversification of religious practice and religious identity among believers who move across countries, and the impact of these changes on political and religious relations in China. Due to the timing of the research coincided with the tightening of transnational travel restrictions by the spread of new coronavirus infection, the main subject of my study limited to the returnee Christians who were returned to China after converted to Christianity during their stay in foreign countries and analyzed the transnational network formation in Chinese Protestantism and the current situation of returnee Christians under the limitations of international mobility. As a result, I could clarify that transnational network formation is now mainly centered in cyberspace.
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Free Research Field |
社会人類学
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究では、2010年代半ば以降の中国国内における海帰キリスト教徒(以下「海帰教徒」)増加に注目し、中国において生じている宗教をめぐる移動やネットワークの国を越えた拡大をめぐる、宗教側と政府の間のせめぎ合いの状況を明らかにした。中国政府は長年宗教の越境性を封じることで宗教をコントロールしてきたが、中国経済の発展とグローバル化に伴う人々の国際移動の拡大と多様化は、宗教政策による制限を越えたトランスナショナルなキリスト教コミュニティの形成を後押ししてきた。本研究の意義は、中国において現在進行中である宗教をめぐる大きな転換点を、特に信者たちの国際移動の影響という点から明らかにした点にある。
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