神聖化的差序格局: 歐洲華人基督教傳播的內生文化邏輯

While non-western Christianities have gained attention from scholars in global Christian studies, the conventional China/West binary has confined Chinese Christian studies within the nation-state context. The transnational and diasporic dynamics of indigenous Chinese Christianity remains under-researched. Since China's economic reform and opening-up, Christian groups from Mainland China have started to play an active role in expanding the diasporic religious space, religious structure, and religious networks overseas, especially in the western world. Drawing on extended anthropological fieldwork among Chinese Christians in Europe, this article discusses the condition, manifestations, and logic of this diasporic Chinese Christian development; highlighting the cultural and moral forces of diasporic Chinese Christianity, and the overlooked role of religion in China's grassroots commercial engagement with the world. Unlike the usual approach in western-centric religious studies, this study highlights the indigenous cultural logic of Chinese Christian expansion, especially the differential mode of association as reflected in the reliance on the state, native-place belonging, and the formation of a moral discourse.