旅法华人移民基督教: 叠合网络与社群委身

Globalization should be understood not only as economic homogenization but also in terms of the worldwide dispersion of religious culture and moral values. In this context, migrants’ religion plays an important role in binding overseas Chinese as a community. Drawing on ethnographic field research, this study examines transnational Christian business networks originated from Wenzhou, southeastern China, and linking China to France. It portrays overlapping networks of Chinese of Wenzhou origin connected through the economy, traditional family values and an indigenized Christianity. By emphasizing multidirectional international migration and globalization, this phenomenon contradicts the dominant assimilation model in the immigrant religious studies of North America, and cannot be seen as the unilateral penetration into Chinese society by the powerful Western culture.