Worship, Technology and Identity: A Deaf Protestant Congregation in Urban China
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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| In: |
Studies in world christianity
Year: 2019, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 220-237 |
| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBM Asia KDD Protestant Church NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
sign language
B deaf culture B Worship B Technology B Protestantism B Chinese Sign Language B Identity B Deaf education |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1750-0230 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in world christianity
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3366/swc.2019.0258 |
