书目名称 | House Church Christianity in China | 副标题 | From Rural Preachers | 编辑 | Jie Kang | 视频video | | 概述 | Casts new light on China‘s urbanization.Broadens our understanding of the spread of Christianity in the People‘s Republic.Based on unique, in-depth fieldwork | 丛书名称 | Global Diversities | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | 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-pr | 出版日期 | Book 2016 | 关键词 | Social anthropology; Rural areas; Urban areas; Ethnography; Urbanization; Chinese Christianity; area studi | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30490-8 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-80824-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-30490-8Series ISSN 2662-2580 Series E-ISSN 2662-2599 | issn_series | 2662-2580 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 |
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