中文摘要：

教案是外来宗教文化与本土文化激烈冲突最为直接的反映。对广东基督教教案时空演变的研究，恰能直观地反映出基督教文化在广东文化扩散和文化适应的历史地理过程。研究从相关历史文献中提取数据，并运用GIS图形技术和数理统计方法进行分析，发现1584～1910年期间，广东基督教教案大致经历了初生、多发、高潮、衰退四个时期。其空间分布具有不均衡的特性：珠三角自始至终是教案发生的中心，潮汕地区和粤东客家地区也先后成为教案的分布次中心地。地理集中指数的测算进一步印证了教案分布的这一结构特征。从文化传播的模式看，广东基督教教案的扩散属于墨渍式迁移扩散，但也明显带有以人口密度为主、行政区等级为次的等级扩散特征。形成这种分布与扩散的地域文化成因则在于广东对内封闭、对外开放的整体地理环境和各民系地域文化差异的共同作用。

英文摘要：

Missionary case is one of the most direct reflectations of the conflict and combination between foreign religious culture and local culture. The paper obtains data from the relevant historical literatures and uses GIS graphical technique and the mathematical statistical analysis method to conduct study. It is found out that the evolution process of Guangdong missionary case before 1911 can be categorized into four stages., newborn, multiple, climax, and recession. Their imbalanced spatial distribution in Guangdong can be seen obviously, the Pearl River Delta （PRD） is the distribution center of missionary case from beginning to end; Chaoshan region and Hakka areas in the east of Guangdong also become the inferior centers successively. Furthermore, an analysis on geographic concentration in dexes of missionary cases in every state of Guangdong before 1911 evidences the structural character of the centeral areas of missionary case. In view of the cultural dissemination pattern, the diffusion of missionary cases in Guangdong not only belongs to the ink-mark type of migration proliferation, but also obviously has some features of hierarchical proliferation, in which the level of population density is taken as the primary diffusion character, and then is the administrative area rank. The regional cultural causes of the distribution and diffusion of missionary case lie in the geographic environment in Guangdong, which is enclosed to inland and opened to outseas, leading to different regional cultures of various localities among themselves. Our geographical research on the missionary cases gives a new and unique perspective on how to decrease growing regional religious conflicts in the world. Some geographical research methods, including GIS ＆ GCI （Geographic Concentration Index）, which is used in the context,could find a new way for the research on religious geography.