CAJ | 학술논문

宗教地理是文化地理重要的研究内容之一，但在中国相关实证研究仍不多见。结合半结构问卷调查和访谈，对广州石室圣心大教堂的非洲裔移民宗教场所地方感特征及其形成机理进行探讨。研究发现：非洲裔移民宗教场所地方依恋和地方认同发展快于地方依赖；非裔移民较强的圣地地方依恋同时存在较强的空间可替代性，但又由于区位等因素存在宗教功能之外的非可替代性；圣地地方依赖则因被宗教教义视为功利性而被掩盖。回归分析表明，社交和场所互动时间是指示地方感的最显著指标。随着非粤宗教文化的融合发展，宏观政治环境以及语言文化隔离等外生因素正对宗教地方感的提高产生重要影响。
종교지리시문화지리중요적연구내용지일，단재중국상관실증연구잉불다견。결합반결구문권조사화방담，대엄주석실골심대교당적비주예이민종교장소지방감특정급기형성궤리진행탐토。연구발현：비주예이민종교장소지방의련화지방인동발전쾌우지방의뢰；비예이민교강적골지지방의련동시존재교강적공간가체대성，단우유우구위등인소존재종교공능지외적비가체대성；골지지방의뢰칙인피종교교의시위공리성이피엄개。회귀분석표명，사교화장소호동시간시지시지방감적최현저지표。수착비월종교문화적융합발전，굉관정치배경이급어언문화격리등외생인소정대종교지방감적제고산생중요영향。
Under globalization, the geographyof religion has recently attracted much scholarly attention, and become a significant component of cultural geography. Yet, theoretical exploration and systematic empirical work on the role of sacred spaces in facilitating internal and international migrants’ assimilation and adaptation to local society are still lacking, especially in the Chinese context. With the rising global mobility, international immigrants are ubiquitous in a few large Chinese cities. In Guangzhou, an enlarging community of African immigrants is emerging. Their residential areas and daily activities, including religious activities, have shown a clear pattern of spatial concentration. Combined with semi-structured questionnaires and interviews, this study attempts to focus on this under-researched topic by exploring the underlying mechanism and the determinants of African immigrants’ sense of place in religious space in Guangzhou, using theSacred Heart Cathedral as a study area. Emperical evidence shows that African immigrants’ place attachment and place identity tended to develop before place dependence was formed. Although strong place attachment in religion space coexists with strong space substitutability, Sacred Heart Cathedral is irreplaceable to some extent because of its uniquelocation. And since the religious doctrine advocates psychological dependence rather than substance dependence, place dependence tends to be concealed unconsciously, which reveals the different nature of sense of place towards sacred space and secular space. Multivariate linear regression model reveals that social activities and the length of human-place interaction, instead of the length of residence in Guangzhou, are significant determinants for the development of African’s sense of place, because human-place interaction can foster senses of distinctiveness, continuity, self-esteem and self-efficacy. Social conditions also contribute in a significant way because social environment is an efficient element to social integration in immigrant societies. This finding helps us to better understand that human-place bonding matters more than the length of residence in forming the sense of place. Although existant literature has demonstrated some positive effects of sacred spaces to immigrants’ social integration, the Guangzhou case shows that the confliction between Cantonese culture and African culture, as well as exogenous factors such as macro-political environment and isolation have imposed a negative impact on the improvement of sense of place in religious space. Furthermore, similar religious facilities with those in their home countries are of great help to improve immigrants’ sense of place to sacred place. In view of the problems discovered from the case of theSacred Heart Cathedral, this finding is of certain significance for immigrant management and creating the sense of belonging in the hostingcity for international migrantsmatter.