The Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State in China: God Above Party?
From domination to negotiation from 1949 to today: declining state capacity, rising Protestant numbers -- The role of official associations: projecting a façade of domination in the public transcript -- Resisting the official agenda, sharing grassroots values: the spread of Protestant groups -- Cult...
| Summary: | From domination to negotiation from 1949 to today: declining state capacity, rising Protestant numbers -- The role of official associations: projecting a façade of domination in the public transcript -- Resisting the official agenda, sharing grassroots values: the spread of Protestant groups -- Cultivating social capital as a resource for Protestant resistance -- Enlarging the bounds of the public transcript: founding large, public urban churches -- Repression of an urban church Shanghai's Wanbang Church -- Challenging the bounds of the public transcript -- Beijing Shouwang Church. |
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| ISBN: | 1315178206 |