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024 8 _a10.4324/9780429273612
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035 _a(OCoLC)1107041864
035 _a(OCoLC-P)1107041864
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100 1 _aMa, Li
_c(Sociologist),
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aReligious entrepreneurism in China's urban house churches :
_bthe rise and fall of Early Rain Reformed Presbyterian Church /
_cLi Ma.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bRoutledge,
_c2020.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aRoutledge studies in religion
520 _aThis book offers a unique historical documentation of the development of the ambitious religious entrepreneurism by leaders of the Early Rain church (and later Western China Presbytery leadership), in an effort to gain social influence in China through local institution-building and global public image management. It unravels the social processes of how this Christian community with a public image of defending religious freedom in China was undermined by an internal loss of moral authority. Based on publicly available texts from Chinese social media that aren't readily available in the West as well as in-depth interviews, it is framed by existing scholarship in social theories of the public sphere, charismatic domination in social transition, and the role of power in organizational behaviour. These churches' stories show how Christianity, which has long been politically marginalized in communist China, has not only adapted and challenged the socio-political status quo, but how it was also ironically shaped by the political culture. This is an insightful and critical ethnographic study of one of modern China's most famous house churches. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Religion in China as well as those working in Religious Studies, Asian studies, Chinese studies, and Mission Studies more generally.
588 _aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
650 0 _aChristianity
_zChina.
650 7 _aRELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aRELIGION / Christianity / Protestantism
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856 4 0 _3Taylor & Francis
_uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429273612
856 4 2 _3OCLC metadata license agreement
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