Chinese Protestant Reactions to the Zhejiang “Three Rectifications, One Demolition” Campaign = $Lchi大陆基督徒对浙江‘三改一拆’运动的反应
This paper analyzes the wider effects of church demolitions and cross removals in Zhejiang on another location within the Huadong region. Based on fieldwork conducted in 2014 and 2015, this paper argues that the demolition of churches and church crosses is a potential catalyst for millenarian belief...
| Published in: | Review of Religion and Chinese Society |
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| Subtitles: | $Lchi大陆基督徒对浙江‘三改一拆’运动的反应 |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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| In: |
Review of Religion and Chinese Society
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| Further subjects: | B
“Three Rectifications, One Demolition” campaign
B Millenarianism B 浙江省 B 华东 B “三改一拆”运动 B Huadong B 草根基督教 B Zhejiang B 千禧年主义 B popular Christianity |
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| Summary: | This paper analyzes the wider effects of church demolitions and cross removals in Zhejiang on another location within the Huadong region. Based on fieldwork conducted in 2014 and 2015, this paper argues that the demolition of churches and church crosses is a potential catalyst for millenarian beliefs within popular Christianity. Much of the research on millenarianism has focused on specific movements. However, this paper utilizes the concept of millenarianism as a “body of underground ideas and thought which circulates in a community” and argues that the Zhejiang events have heightened millenarian beliefs within the Huanghaicheng Protestant community and resulted in an interpretation of these events as indicating that the “Last Days” are imminent. This perception has been facilitated by other “signs.” This paper furthers our understanding of the potential impact that political campaigns can have on popular Christianity and what resources individual believers draw on for making sense of them. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-3955 |
| Contains: | In: Review of Religion and Chinese Society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22143955-00501005 |