RT Book
T1 House Church Christianity in China: From Rural Preachers to City Pastors
T2 Global Diversities
T2 SpringerLink Bücher
T2 Springer eBook Collection Social Sciences
A1 Kang, Jie
LA English
PP Cham
PB Palgrave Macmillan
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1654849006
AB This book provides a significant new interpretation of China's rapid urbanization by analyzing its impact on the spread of Protestant Christianity in the People's Republic. Demonstrating how the transition from rural to urban churches has led to the creation of nationwide Christian networks, the author focuses on Linyi in Shandong Province. Using her unparalleled access as both an anthropologist and member of the congregation, she presents a much-needed insider's view of the development, organization, operation and transformation of the region's unregistered house churches. Whilst most studies are concerned with the opposition of church and state, this work, by contrast, shows that in Linyi there is no clear-cut distinction between the official TSPM church and house churches. Rather, it is the urbanization of religion that is worthy of note and detailed analysis, an approach which the author also employs in investigating the role played by Christianity in Beijing. What she uncovers is the impact of newly-acquired urban aspirations for material goods, success and status on the reshaping of local Christian beliefs, practices and rites of passage. In doing so, she creates a thought-provoking account of religious life in China that will appeal to social anthropologists, sociologists, theologians and scholars of China and its society
AB Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Discovering Linyi -- Chapter 3. Christianity and the emergence of house churches in Linyi -- Chapter 4. The Christian network -- Chapter 5. Learning to be a good Christian -- Chapter 6. From Preaching (chuandao 传道) to Shepherding (muyang 牧养) -- Chapter 7. Paths to the New Life in the urban transition -- Conclusion
CN BL60
SN 9783319304908
K1 Social Sciences
K1 Religion and sociology
K1 Ethnology
K1 Area Studies
K1 Sociology, Urban
DO 10.1007/978-3-319-30490-8