信不信由誰？：統一教祝福家庭跨國婚姻者的信仰經驗

Who Decides Whether to Believe?: Belief Experiences of Transnational Marriage Couples in the Blessed family of the Unification Church

本文以統一教祝福家庭跨國婚姻者的信仰經驗為例，探問信徒如何被宗教形塑、教化或感動，如何將信仰與生命結合而能持續至今，信不信由誰？到底是誰，在掌控信徒的信仰？是誰，在主宰信徒的生命。首先，整理統一教的官方觀點、主流媒體和基督宗教團體對統一教的看法、日韓英美台灣各地統一教的先行研究等文獻，進行交叉對照，並掌握皈信和跨國婚姻的相關論述，以釐清研究架構。研究參與者包括三類：台日韓統一教跨國婚姻的受訪者及報導人、台日統一教會的報導人、質疑統一教的台灣報導人，研究結果有三：一、信徒的信仰動機，想解決貧病爭等苦難、想追求宇宙真理、想結婚成家、出身二世家庭；二、信徒對教團教化的因應，信徒的信仰基礎來自教團的長期教化，在接受祝福、出發家庭、持續信仰等階段，信徒對教化各有因應；三、信徒對外界批判的回應，信徒面對負向的社會觀感時，出現了避重就輕、聽而不聞、自圓其說等各類反響。最後，以具同理心的保持距離反思我在研究中湧現的質疑，本文的完成就是為了克服質疑所做的努力。

Based on examples taken from the belief experiences of transnational marriage couples in the blessed families of the Unification Church (Family Federation for World Peace and Unification), this paper examines the following questions: How are believers shaped, indoctrinated, and moved by religious ideas? How have they integrated religion into their lives and been able to sustain it until now? Who decides whether to believe? And, who in the end controls their beliefs? Who is it that dictates their lives? First, by dealing with the official positions of the Unification Church, opinions regarding the Unification Church from the mainstream media and Christian groups, and prior studies from Japan, Korea, the UK, the USA, and Taiwan, I undertake a cross-comparison of these materials. I also take up related articles on conversion and transnational marriage to clarify the framework of this research. Participants in this study included three groups: interviewees or informants from transnational marriages in the blessed families of the Unification Church of Taiwan, Japan, and Korea; informants from the Unification Church in Taiwan and Japan; and Taiwanese informants who dispute or suspect the Unification Church. The results of this research have been threefold: (1) The motivations of followers include the desire to resolve suffering that stems from poverty, sickness, or disputes; the desire to pursue universal truth; the desire to marry and form a family; while some followers were born into the Unification Church and are now second-generation households; (2) As for the followers ability to adjust to the indoctrination, their beliefs are based on a lengthy period of indoctrination, and at various stages—accepting the blessing, initiating a family, and sustaining their beliefs—followers each have various ways to cope with this indoctrination; (3) Regarding their responses to external criticism, when followers are confronted with other social views, they often display a variety of reactions, such as evading more significant issues to focus on the trivial, deliberately ignoring them, or providing some self-justification. Finally, from a position of sympathetic detachment, I reflect on my own suspicions towards the group which emerged over the course of this research. The completion of this paper is a great effort I have made to overcome these suspicions.