The 'Aboriginal Theology' Movement of Tayal Presbyterian Church

Autor: Shieh, Shin--Yu, 謝欣育
Rok vydání: 1996
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 84
The main issue of this thesis aims at searching for the focus/perspective of aboriginal theology and the circumstances that breed it,managing to analyzee aboriginal theology as a phenomenon wherein both religious and cultural issues are discussed. The simple fact that a aboriginal missionaries now approach this issue in terms of 'aboriginal theology' indicates a very significant cultural phenomenon. Moreover,when we review the period of how early aboriginals acquired Christianbelief,we can observe various other-cultural factors interacting with one another. Therefore, I try to use the idea of 'other-culture' to reconstruct the proce sof how post-war Presbyterian Church convert the Tayal people in Taiwan.Furthermore, thorough reconstructing the detailed process of conversion, I try toanalyze how missionaries of different races and backgrounds display different cultural ideologies and how these early missionaries influence the cultural activity of the later Tayal Presbyterian Church. We can even observe discrepancies among the cultural ideologies of the Tayal missionaries.Since 1980's between culture and religion and thus launch theconcept of aboriginal theology,the Tayal missionaries begin to contemplate onthe issue of interactions. This concept testifies its theory through loca lization.But aboriginal theologystill hasn't acquired a explicit position simp ly because of the conflicts resulted from internal anti- syncritic movement. Covering the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan,Post-war conversion movement,and the localization mo vement in the 1990's,I manage to employ the structure of Turner's social drama to demonstrate that the localization of Presbyterian missionaries is the process of social development that ceaselessly occurs in our social environment.
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