This study investigates the historical and political conditions which have contributed to the state of the Protestant community in China, and the kinds of spirituality and religious life that it has evolved. The authors draw on extensive fieldwork, and offer fascinating insights into the beliefs and practices of a little-documented section of Chinese society. They show that healing, protection, and vengeance by gods have been deep-rooted elements of Chinese religiosity for several hundred years, notions appropriated by Christians who now emphasize the powers of Jesus. Chinese Protestantism is seen to result from an interesting blend of the old and the new, and comparative material is adduced which sets Protestantism side by side with Catholicism and Buddhism, the two religions in China of comparable scope. A wide range of sources are utilized by the authors, and these lead to one of the most complete and detailed surveys of Christianity in China ever produced.
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This study offers fascinating insights into the beliefs and practices of a little-documented section of Chinese society. The peculiar character of Chinese Protestantism is seen to result from an interesting blend of old and new religious elements, and the resulting survey constitutes one of the most complete pictures of Christianity in China.
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In October 1949 the CCP announced the foundation of the People's Republic of China. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
house church members, house church groups, house church leaders, house church movement, bourgeois liberalization, official church, pastoral workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, Cultural Revolution, Brother Huang, Holy Spirit, Apostolic Church, Chinese Christians, Little Flock, Bishop Ting, New York, Central Committee, State Council, Chinese Catholic, Local Assemblies, People's Republic, Chinese Christianity, John Sung, Communist China, Deng Zhaoming, Mao Zedong, Roman Catholic, Deng Xiaoping, Zhao Puchu, Chinese Buddhism, Chinese Protestant, East Europe New!
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In October 1949 the CCP announced the foundation of the People's Republic of China. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
house church members, house church groups, house church leaders, house church movement, bourgeois liberalization, official church, pastoral workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, Cultural Revolution, Brother Huang, Holy Spirit, Apostolic Church, Chinese Christians, Little Flock, Bishop Ting, New York, Central Committee, State Council, Chinese Catholic, Local Assemblies, People's Republic, Chinese Christianity, John Sung, Communist China, Deng Zhaoming, Mao Zedong, Roman Catholic, Deng Xiaoping, Zhao Puchu, Chinese Buddhism, Chinese Protestant, East Europe New!
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- Contemporary China by Alan Hunter on 4 pages
- Buddhism under Mao (Harvard East Asian Series) by Holmes Welch on page 48, page 55, and Back Matter
- Chinese New Year (Holidays, Festivals, & Celebrations) by Ann Heinrichs on page 213, page 215, and page 216
- No Longer Strangers: Selected Writings of Bishop K.H. Ting by Bishop K. H. Ting on page 78, page 88, and Back Matter
- The Resurrection of the Chinese Church (An Omf Book) by Tony Lambert in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
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- Religion in China Today (The China Quarterly Special Issues) by Daniel L. Overmyer on 5 pages
- China, Two Decades of Reform and Change by Wang Guangwu on 4 pages
- China's Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society) by Richard Madsen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- China's Christian Millions by Tony Lambert on page 182, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America by Paul Freston on page 101, and Back Matter
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