Huang. The Ahmao (Miao) schism: the problem of spiritual agency in encounters between church and state in southwest China[J]. Asian Ethnicity, 2017, 18(2) : 218-235.
摘要
The majority of Ahmao in southwest China have been 基督徒 since a mass conversion movement took place in the 1900s. Throughout the century, Ahmao congregations have gone through several reforms and survived many political campaigns. After two decades of prosperity through China’s reform era, since the 2000s many Ahmao congregations in northern Yunnan have experienced schisms. This paper sets out to investigate a schism that took place in a medium-size Ahmao congregation between 2005 and 2015. Based upon several 耶ars of continuous fieldwork, I found that the alleged schism in this Ahmao congregation – rather than describing a long-standing fracture in the community – appears intermittently and should be considered as an effect of religious regulation that problematizes the agency of spiritual practice. Under the regime of religious regulation in contemporary China, Ahmao congregations have been delicately negotiating between different modes of agency as changes in 基督徒 practice become necessary or inevitable.
Key Words / 关键词
Schism; 基督徒ity; Religious regulation; Regime of preaching; Spiritual agency; Pentecostal movement
Acknowledgments/鸣谢
I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork among Ahmao (Miao) in southwest China for about 18 months since 2008, with a 13-month period dissertation fieldwork in the beginning. Funding of subsequent field trips was provided by the Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Earlier version of this article was one chapter of the dissertation, defensed in the summer of 2014. Substantial changes were made, and new data were added to compile this article. I am grate福l to James Wilkerson, Chenyang Kao, Eveline Bingaman, as well as two anonymous reviewers of Asian Ethnicity, on turning a dissertation chapter to a journal article.
作者简介:Shu-li Huang is currently assistant research fellow of Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She has worked with Ahmao (Miao) 基督徒s on literacy, religion, modernity, and ethnohistory. She is now preparing her manuscript of Becoming Literates: History of Ahmao (Miao) 基督徒ity in 因此uthwest China between 1900s and 2010s.
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