[ 摘要 ]

本研究旨在探討居住在萬金、赤山村的天主教眾之日常生活，共分為五章來論述。

在第一章的緒論中，首先說明研究動機之開展與現有之文獻狀況以及理論基礎。

第二章則論述萬金、赤山村的地理環境與歷史背景。從文獻資料的解讀以及重構，以瞭解當地天主教眾居民的背景身分，當地的居民大多是屬於鳳山八社的平埔族後裔，亦有少許的客家人混居其中，這些族群構成了當地的居民組成，亦即從平埔族群的分布、客家人的移住以及萬金、赤山地區的族群關係出發，瞭解萬金、赤山地區的族群分布及其活動。

第三章探討天主教在萬金、赤山地區的發展。天主教傳來萬金後，起初受到了相當多的阻礙，客家族群的干擾為其中之最，萬金天主教堂從創教時，遭遇諸多波折的窘境，演變成教友雲集之現況，實是費心經營之成果。在本章裡，首先探討天主教傳入萬金、赤山地區的過程，再來了解萬金聖母聖殿的組織及活動，以及當地最為人熟知的主保瞻禮儀式以及聖母轎遊行的精采過程，目的即在於將萬金聖母聖殿現今的發展狀況作一描述。

第四章則以生活方式為切入點，進行日常生活之分析與解釋，包含教眾參與天主教活動、教眾休閒活動、教眾日常生活圈、教眾對教堂整修滿意度以及教眾對聖堂土地利用等項目。研究方法除了參與觀察與訪談外，並設計相關問卷題目，針對研究地區天主教眾進行調查，共有393份有效樣本，利用電腦SPSS軟體進行單項次數與百分比統計以及兩兩變項交叉分析，將統計結果進行分析與解釋，以瞭解當地天主教眾之日常生活現況。

最後，在第五章中提出結論與建議以及未來之陸續研究方向。



[ 英文摘要 ]

Divided into five chapters, this paper probes into the daily life of Catholics who live in Wan-king and Chu-Shan village.

Chapter 1, Introduction, explains the motivation to make this research, existing literatures and theory bases.

Chapter 2 discusses geographic environment and history background of Wan-King and Chun-Shun village. Tries to find out the background status of local Catholics based on comprehension and reconstruction of related literatures. Most local residents are descendants of Ping-Bu aborigines of Fengshan No 8 commune, and there are also a few Hakkinese live together in these two regions. These nations make the composition of local residents. In a word, this chapter is to comprehend the distribution and activities of nations in Wan-King and Chu-Shan from aspects of distribution of Ping-Bu aborigines, immigration of Hakkinese and relations between each nation.

Chapter 3 refers to the development of Catholicism in Wan-King and Chu-Shan. In early days after it was introduced into these regions, Catholicism met many difficulties, to which the disturbance and resistance of Hakkinese made the greatest contribution. Thanks to elaboration Wan-King Catholic Church has developed into an important church, in which lots of Catholics gather, from the original predicament. First, this chapter probes into the process of introduction of Catholicism into Wan-King and Chun-Shan. Then looks into the organization and activities of Wan-King Virgin Mary Palace, the ceremonial of the feast day of God Bless and the wonderful process of Virgin Mary’s Litter Parade, so as to describe the present situation of Wan-King Virgin Mary Palace.

From the point of life style, chapter 4 analyses and interprets Catholic’s daily life, such as believer’s participation in Catholic activities, relaxation and entertainment at leisure, daily life circle, level of satisfaction in refit of the church and usage of the church land by believers etc. Besides research methods of observing and interview, related questionnaire subjects have been designed to make investigation to Catholics in these regions. There are 393 effective samples in all. Statistical results are analyzed and interpreted by using SPSS to make frequency analysis, percentage statistics and crosstab analysis, in order to know about the present situation of local Catholic’s daily life.

At the end, conclusion and suggestions and directions of continuous researches are given in Chapter 5.