For the Love of God: Finding Support in the Church-Community: a Case Study from China
Based on fieldwork in a Protestant church in Guangzhou, this article discusses the emergence of a new collective in urban China: the church-community. Offering various tangible and intangible forms of support, the church attracts people for various reasons, but especially those who have been left mo...
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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2011
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Religion, state & society
Jahr: 2011, Band: 39, Heft: 4, Seiten: 443-459 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Based on fieldwork in a Protestant church in Guangzhou, this article discusses the emergence of a new collective in urban China: the church-community. Offering various tangible and intangible forms of support, the church attracts people for various reasons, but especially those who have been left most vulnerable by the socio-economic transformations. Churchgoers form a spiritual and physical community through ritual practice and good deeds that are conceived of as ‘free gifts’. This community is importantly defined as a realm outside both ‘traditional’ notions of reciprocity and China's present-day consumer ideology. It thus provides believers with an alternative source or realm of moral authority as well as a sense of security. |
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ISSN: | 1465-3974 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Religion, state & society
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2011.621689 |