The Indigenization And The Credit Reconstruction

Since 1980s, the academe has been paying more and more attention to the study of Christianity indigenization. In this field, the mainland academe mainly concentrated on the macroscopical study, but few historian has been engaged in the regional study.This thesis selects QuanZhou as a typical case, and trys to draw the outline of the indigenization of modern Christianity in QuanZhou by discussing the four chapters: the contact, the conflict, the adjustment and the recontruction. Based on this, from the unique viewpoint of the credit reconstruction, the thesis also presents the ups and downs of the Christian churches. Finally, the thesis comes to the conclusion that the shield of firearms and the support of treaties were not only the innate advantage of the modern Christianity, but also its innate deformity. Because of the innate deformity, the indigenization of modern Christianity was doomed to fail.On the bases of the fomer studies, this thesis attempts to do research on three new aspects below: firstly, with the shield of the firearms and the support of treaties, the Christianity has been spreading forcibly in modem China. However, it was short of credit and treated as an exotic religion, so this thesis sees the indigenization of modern Christianity in QuanZhou as a process in which Christianity reconstructs its credit, and discusses it in detail; secondly, the large-scale conflict between protestant and Catholicism in Hui'an shouldn't be simply seen as the conflict inside the Christianity, but as the conflict between the Christian church and local demos; thirdly, with the endeavor of modern Christian churches in QuanZhou, the credit of Christianity increased, the Chinese pastor even played the role of reconciling the clan-feuds.