Worship, Technology and Identity: A Deaf Protestant Congregation in Urban China

This paper 1 analyses a Deaf community in urban China and explores the extent to which this particular community has contextualised a Protestant message centred on understandings of sin as a disability. The construction of this message is based on a shared identity as both Deaf and Protestant and is...

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Main Author: McLeister, Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Edinburgh Univ. Press [2019]
In: Studies in world christianity
Year: 2019, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 220-237
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
KBM Asia
KDD Protestant Church
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B sign language
B deaf culture
B Worship
B Technology
B Protestantism
B Chinese Sign Language
B Identity
B Deaf education
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Summary:This paper 1 analyses a Deaf community in urban China and explores the extent to which this particular community has contextualised a Protestant message centred on understandings of sin as a disability. The construction of this message is based on a shared identity as both Deaf and Protestant and is mediated through a shared practice of signing and a common written language (Chinese). Circulation of this message is facilitated by technology and social media. Based on ethnographic data generated in a Deaf congregation in Yantai, Shandong province, I argue that while the message of this particular group is highly contextualised, the community has both national and transnational ties, linking it to a range of Protestant groups both within and outside mainland China. This paper furthers our understanding of how Christian identity is shaped in contemporary China.
ISSN:1750-0230
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in world christianity
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3366/swc.2019.0258