In search of the heart of a heartless world: Chinese youth, house-church Christianity and the longing for foreign Utopias
In search of the heart of a heartless world: Chinese youth, house-church Christianity and the longing for foreign Utopias
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寻找无情世界的心：中国青年、家庭教会基督教与对异国乌托邦的向往
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10.1080/1070289x.2017.1400277
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2018
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Susanne Bregnbæk
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作者：
Susanne Bregnbæk
摘要在这篇文章中，我阐明了中国年轻人皈依基督教的现象，并认为这往往与他们对生活中缺失的乌托邦式渴望密切相关（Bloch 1907）。通过对两个年轻人的个人中心的叙述，我探讨了他们如何摆脱无休止的奋斗“复造”的世俗困境，并在国外寻找基于自我目标价值观的更好生活。套用马克思的话，我认为他们是在寻找“一个无情的世界的心脏”，并认为他们可以被视为个人的追求，以找到希望，通过更充实的形式，人类社会性。论证人类的经验是短暂的和虚幻的，就像自我不是稳定的有界实体，而是多重的和不稳定的一样，我认为乌托邦永远不会完全实现，因为它本质上是“无处不在”的。
ABSTRACT In this article I shed light on the phenomenon of Chinese young people’s conversion to Christianity and argue that it is often closely tied to a utopian longing for what is missing in their lives (Bloch 1907). Through a person-centered account of two young people, I explore their quests to escape the temporal predicament of endless striving 'fuzao' and search for a better life based autotelic values abroad. Paraphrasing Marx I argue that they are in search of ‘the heart of a heartless world’ and argue that they can be seen as individual quests to find hope through more fulfilling forms of human sociality. Arguing that human experience is transitory and illusory in the same way that selves are not stable bounded entities but rather multiple and unstable, I argue that utopia is never fully achieved since it is essentially ‘no-where’.