| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 客家文化學院客家社會與文化學程 === 101 === Using Hakka women’s converted life paths in two churches in Chutung as subjects and examining their daily routines, the causes of their conversion and their lives after conversion, this study reveals the processes of those women’s continuous adjustments to the reality and of their life transformation. They use religious conversion as a means to successfully achieve their goal of creating their own lives. In the new religion, they establish their subjectivity and self-consciousness. The concepts of women’s empowerment and leisure time can also be explained here. They represent a connection between traditions and modern times and best exemplify Hakka women’s adjustability and flowability in life.
The first chapter of this study describes the human and social backgrounds of Chutung and introduces people’s beliefs and daily lives in this district. The following chapter records the lives of Hakka women of this area, including their work experience, education opportunities, natal families, beliefs and marriages. The third chapter focuses on those Hakka women’s experiences of religious conversion and the hindrances of traditional ancestor veneration to their conversion. The next chapter explores the actual effects of the new religion on them after they become Christians and examines the gospels that keep coming out during my interviews with them. In the concluding chapter, from a religious angle, I analyze Hakka women’s subjectivity and self-consciousness manifested in their traditions and innovations and explicate the intention of their flowability between the old and new.
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