The Dissemination And Localization Of Catholicism In Datong And Shuozhou Before 1949

My thesis is a dissertation research aiming at the dissemination and localization of Catholicism in Datong and Shuozhou before 1949. The article consists of five chapters.Chapter 1 is the introduction. I enumerated monographs and treatises concerning Catholicism in Shanxi. Some of these documents are narrative, and some are reasoned. I limited my subject investigated and the space-time area of the thesis basing on the cognition and sum-up of the contents the documents related to.Chapter 2, 3 and chapter 4 are the text part. In chapter 2 I narrated the course of the acculturation of Catholicism in Shanxi and the evolution of the parish. This chapter included 2 sections. The content of section 1 is the history of acculturation of Catholicism. My emphasizing depiction was the new data found by myself. While those are well known to everyone were recounted in a nutshell. The second section is in regard to the development condition about the parish system which was established in Shanxi. Since the pasturing area was set up for the first time in Shanxi in 1696, the church had been ceaselessly carrying on the organizational system along with the vicissitudes of the church work via 18th, 19^th century to the early 20^th century. Seeing about this course, we could find how Catholicism developed in each period in Shanxi.I reviewed the development history of Catholicism in Datong and Shuozhou in chapter 3. This chapter is composed of 2 sections, too. The parish in Datong and that in Shuozhou were both set up in 1920's. We could distinctly realize the imprint of that era according to the development of Catholicism in Datong and Shuozhou.Chapter 4 is the major content of the whole article. I made discuss through 3 aspects. Part 1 is that the church participated in initiating fact social. In order to obtain the approval from the native, the church gave prominence to the beneficence culture of gospel, introjected with local society according to providing some service, there out a lot of the masses were attracted to come into the church. Part 2 is that priests with Chinese nationality and local clergy's education and appointment. The predecessors never did investigation for priests with Chinese nationality and local clergy's education and appointment in Shanxi. So I reviewed the history of priests with Chinese nationality's education, then analyzed and concluded the amount and characteristic of local clergy in Datong and Shuozhou. Part 3 is that followers of Catholicism inheritated with local tradition , whose essential is collision and conformity after two culture encountered. Datong and Shuozhou have distinct regional custom. To the followers, joining the religion mean not only the change of belief, but also renewed definition of living habitude. Followers believed in Catholicism meanwhile inherited some regional cultural tradition in the process of the conflict and consonance of church doxy and regional custom. That is the significant content of Catholicism localization.Chapter 5 is the conclusion. First I recapitulated acculturation and the development course of Catholicism in Datong and Shuozhou. Then I concluded Catholicism localization and put forward my view on how to accelerate the relationship between people and Catholicism more concordant from the angle of church pre se and country policy.