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Recent history of Christianity in China
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Religion in China : survival and revival under communist rule by Fenggang YangPublication Date: 2011-10-28
Religion in China survived a total ban of any religion during and after the Cultural Revolution. All churches, temples, and mosques were closed down, converted for secular uses, or turned to museums for the purpose of atheist education. Over the last three decades, however, religion has survived and thrived, even under Communist rule. Christianity ranks among the fastest-growing religions in the country, and many Buddhist and Daoist temples have been restored.
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Superstitious Regimes : religion and the politics of Chinese modernity by Rebecca NedostupISBN: 9780674035997
Publication Date: 2010-04-01
This book explores the recategorisation of religious practices and people and examines how state power affected the religious lives and physical order of local communities in China. It also looks at how politicians conceived their own ritual role in an era when authority was meant to derive from popular sovereignty.
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China's Urban Christians : a light that cannot be hidden by Brent FultonISBN: 9781625647191
Publication Date: 2015-11-11
This book looks at how massive urbanization is redrawing not only the geographic and social landscape of China, but also transforming China's growing church as well. The purpose of this book is to explore how Christians in China perceive the challenges posed by their new urban context and to examine their proposed means of responding to these challenges.
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A New History of Christianity in China by Daniel H. BaysISBN: 9781405159548
Publication Date: 2011-08-15
This book looks at Christianity’s long history in China, its extraordinarily rapid rise in the last half of the twentieth century, and charts its future direction. It provides the first comprehensive history of Christianity in China, an important, understudied area in both Asian studies and religious history. It traces the transformation of Christianity from an imported, Western religion to a thoroughly Chinese religion Contextualizes the growth of Christianity in China within national and local politics.
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The Religious Question in Modern China by Vincent Goossaert; David A. PalmerISBN: 9780226005331
Publication Date: 2012-10-22
Recent events—from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe—vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without attending closely to the question of religion. This book highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political regimes, and cultural movements to explore how religion has challenged and responded to secular Chinese modernity, from 1898 to the present.
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God Is Red : the secret story of how Christianity survived and flourished in Communist China by Liao YiwuPublication Date: 2011-09-13
When Liao first stumbled upon a vibrant Christian community in the officially secular China, he knew little about Christianity. In fact, he'd been taught that religion was evil, and that those who believed in it were deluded, cultists, or imperialist spies. But as a writer whose work has been banned in China and has even landed him in jail, Liao felt a kinship with Chinese Christians in their unwavering commitment to the freedom of expression and to finding meaning in a tumultuous society.
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Handbook of Christianity in China - 1800-Present by R. G. Tiedemann (Editor)Publication Date: 2010-01-01
This second volume on Christianity in China covers the period from 1800 onwards up to the present, divided into three main periods, and dealing with the complexities of both Catholic and Protestant aspects. Also in this volume the reader will be guided to and through the Chinese and Western primary and secondary sources by carefully selected major scholars in the field. Produced with financial support from the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim.
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Taking Christianity to China by J. Wayne Flynt; Gerald W. BerkleyPublication Date: 1997-01-01
By examining the lives of 47 Alabama missionaries who served in China between 1850 and 1950, Flynt and Berkley reach a different conclusion. Although Alabama missionaries initially fit the negative description of Americans trying to superimpose their own values and beliefs on "heathen," they quickly learned to respect Chinese civilization. The result was a new synthesis, neither entirely southern nor entirely Chinese. Although previous works focus on the failure of Christianity to change China, this book focuses on the degree to which their service in China changed Alabama missionaries. And the change was profound
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