RT Article
T1 Worship, Technology and Identity: A Deaf Protestant Congregation in Urban China
JF Studies in world christianity
VO 25
IS 2
SP 220
OP 237
A1 McLeister, Mark
LA English
PB Edinburgh Univ. Press
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1671606000
AB 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.
K1 Chinese Sign Language
K1 deaf culture
K1 Deaf education
K1 Protestantism
K1 Identity
K1 sign language
K1 Technology
K1 Worship
DO 10.3366/swc.2019.0258