Historical Research for the Change of Religious Formation and the Problems of the Religious Minorities in Palesline

本报告由五个部分组成。第一部分“选题的问题和意义，以及研究的获得”，包括对前人研究的批判性验证以及本课题的理论研究和方法论。第二部分《现代时期的巴勒斯坦基督教少数群体社会》是一本专著，根据奥斯曼帝国当局记录的人头税登记，研究了巴勒斯坦，特别是耶路撒冷及其周围地区基督教人口的人口分布和教派构成。我可以在这篇文章中阐明在奥斯曼帝国统治下，基督教人口集中到耶路撒冷的现象，以及由于他们的移民而引起的教派分布的变化。本文还讨论了目前以色列/帕累斯丁地区基督教少数群体的实际情况，并试图对16-17世纪和近代巴勒斯坦基督教社区的情况进行比较研究。第三部分“伊斯兰早期巴勒斯坦基督教社会”论述了伊斯兰早期基督教多数派的社会政治状况。其中包括对前伊斯兰时代基督教社会的研究和对巴勒斯坦基督教社会政治社会状况的考察。第四部分总结了东方教会在中东的历史。为基督教社会的变迁和伊斯兰化与中东其他地区的比较研究提供参考。第五部分是巴勒斯坦前现代史料一览表，可供本课题参考。

This report consists of five parts. The first part titled "Issue and Significance of the Subject, and Obtain of the Research" contains critical verification of the previous researches as well as theoretical research and methodology of this subject. The second part "The Christian Minority Society of Palestine in the Modern Period" is a monograph examined the demographic distribution and the denominational formation of Christian population in Palestine, especially Jerusalem and its environs, based on the registers of the poll-tax recorded by the Ottoman authorities. I can elucidate in this paper a phenomenon of the centralization of the Christian population to Jerusalem and changes of denominational distribution as result of their migration under the Ottoman rule. This paper also discusses the actual conditions of the Christian minority in Israel/Parestine area in the present time and attempts a comparative study of the conditions of the Christian communities in Palestine betwwn the sixteenth-seventeenth century and the recent time. The third part "The Christian Society of Palestine in the Early Islamic Period" discusses the social and political condition of the Christian majority in the early Islamic period. It contains a study about Christian society in pre-Islamic times and investigation of political and social situation of Christian society of Palestine. The fourth part summarizes the history of the eastern Churches in the Middle East. It is added as a reference for the comparative study about the change of the Christian society and Islamization with other places in the Middle East. The fifth part is a list of sources of history of Palestine in pre-modern times, which can be used for the concerned subject.