TY - BOOK ID - 9404793 TI - House Church Christianity in China : From Rural Preachers to City Pastors PY - 2016 SN - 3319304895 9783319304892 3319304909 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - S13B/0600 KW - S13B/0630 KW - S11/0470 KW - China: Christianity--Christianity under communism: general KW - China: Christianity--Protestantism under communism: general KW - China: Social sciences--Cities: since 1949 KW - Social sciences. KW - Religion and sociology. KW - Ethnology. KW - Area studies. KW - Sociology, Urban. KW - Social Sciences. KW - Sociology of Religion. KW - Social Anthropology. KW - Urban Studies/Sociology. KW - Social Aspects of Religion. KW - Area Studies. KW - Christianity KW - Urban sociology KW - Cities and towns KW - Area research KW - Foreign area studies KW - Education KW - Research KW - Geography KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Religion and society KW - Religious sociology KW - Society and religion KW - Sociology, Religious KW - Sociology and religion KW - Sociology of religion KW - Sociology KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Human sciences KW - Sciences, Social KW - Social science KW - Social studies KW - Civilization KW - Study and teaching UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9404793 AB - 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-provoking account of religious life in China that will appeal to social anthropologists, sociologists, theologians and scholars of China and its society. ER -