Constructing China's Jerusalem : Christians, power, and place in contemporary Wenzhou /

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"Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of a modern, commercialized economy. In vivid detail, anthropologist Nanlai Cao explores the massive resurg...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cao, Nanlai
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Series:Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific.
Subjects:
Christianity > Social aspects > China > Wenzhou Shi.
Church growth > China > Wenzhou Shi.
Christianity and culture > China > Wenzhou Shi.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Christianity and culture.
Christianity > Social aspects.
Church growth.
Christentum
Religiöse Identität
Religiöse Minderheit
Christentum.
Religionsausübung.
Religionssoziologie.
Soziales Handeln.
Wenzhou Shi (China) > Church history.
China > Wenzhou Shi.
China
Wenzhou.
China.
Church history.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : putting Christianity and capitalism in their place
  • The rise of "boss Christians" and their engagements with state power
  • Of manners, morals and modernity : cosmopolitan desires and the remaking of Christian identity
  • The business of religion in the "Wenzhou model" of Christian revival
  • Gendered agency, gender hierarchy and religious identity making
  • Conversion to urban citizenship : rural migrant workers' participation in Wenzhou Christianity
  • Conclusion : religious revivalism as a moral discourse of modernity.

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