By Jie Kang

ISBN-10: 3319304895

ISBN-13: 9783319304892

This booklet offers an important new interpretation of China's swift urbanization by means of reading its influence at the unfold of Protestant Christianity within the People's Republic. Demonstrating how the transition from rural to city church buildings has resulted in the production of national Christian networks, the writer specializes in Linyi in Shandong Province. Using her extraordinary entry as either an anthropologist and member of the congregation, she presents a much-needed insider's view of the advance, association, operation and transformation of the region's unregistered condo churches. Whilst such a lot reviews are inquisitive about the competition of church and kingdom, this paintings, against this, indicates that during Linyi there is not any straight forward contrast among the reliable TSPM church and apartment church buildings. quite, it's the urbanization of faith that's invaluable of notice and unique research, an procedure which the writer additionally employs in investigating the function performed by way of Christianity in Beijing. What she uncovers is the impression of newly-acquired city aspirations for fabric items, luck and standing at the reshaping of neighborhood Christian ideals, practices and rites of passage. In doing so, she creates a thought-provoking account of non secular existence in China that would attract social anthropologists, sociologists, theologians and students of China and its society.

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