The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and the Self-Identity of the Second-Generation Bunun Urban Indigenous by Autoethnography

• Main Authors: Chung-Yen Chuan, 全仲彥
• Other Authors: Chang-Shing Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/th3s4z

碩士 === 中原大學 === 宗教研究所 === 106 === Regarding the urban indigenous descendants whose hometown already not belongs to the original tribe but the urban city, it’s an intense subject undergoing in union for the urban indigenous descendants to self-identify who they are as an aboriginal people. The objective of this research is a second-generation Bunun urban indigenous who identify as a Christian of The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan to explore the meaning of the Bunun tribe historical religion changing and the purpose of the urban indigenous church established due to the population migration nowadays. Recognize the indigenous identity through the religious approach and write with autoethnography to do the self-reflection and explore the personal experience and connect this autobiographical story to wider cultural and social meanings and understandings in three identity-steps, Unexamined Ethnic Identity, Ethnic Identity Search and Ethnic Identity Achievement. Finally, the researcher hopes this study not only can be the basic structure in the pursuit of Bunun’s cultural spirit for the urban indigenous descendants, but also suggests the urban indigenous church can be the cradle of indigenous culture and establish the indigenous theology based on the human right and Democratic consciousness to avoid the identity crisis and cultural assimilation.