Refusing educational desire: negotiating faith and precarity at an underground Chinese Christian school

Q2 Social Sciences

Asian anthropology Pub Date : 2021-06-08 DOI:10.1080/1683478X.2021.1930468

Xiaobo Yuan

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Abstract In the last decade, a Reformed Christian education movement has grown among urban underground churches in China, with the emergence of unsanctioned religious schools that reject state-run educational institutions, secular curricula, and nationalized examinations. At one such underground Christian school in Nanjing, participants actively refuse normative educational desires and work to construct alternative horizons of aspiration for their children. They do so by cultivating children as “little sinners,” challenging mainstream discourses that emphasize education as a means to produce “quality” citizens and gain access to social mobility and economic security. Drawing on ethnographic research on the everyday life of an underground school, this article demonstrates how Christian communities deploy an “ethics of refusal” to resignify the terms of educational striving around the cultivation of spiritual sensitivities.

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拒绝教育欲望：在中国基督教地下学校谈判信仰与不稳定

摘要在过去的十年里，随着未经批准的宗教学校的出现，改革派基督教教育运动在中国城市地下教会中兴起，这些学校拒绝接受国有教育机构、世俗课程和国有考试。在南京的一所这样的地下基督教学校，参与者积极拒绝规范的教育欲望，努力为他们的孩子构建另一种渴望的视野。他们通过将儿童培养成“小罪人”来做到这一点，挑战主流话语，这些话语强调教育是培养“高素质”公民、获得社会流动性和经济安全的手段。本文借鉴了对地下学校日常生活的民族志研究，展示了基督教社区如何运用“拒绝伦理”来放弃围绕精神敏感性培养的教育努力。

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Asian anthropology Social Sciences-Anthropology

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