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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cao, Nanlai.

Series:

Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific.

East-West Center series on contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Social aspects--China--Wenzhou Shi.

Christianity.

Church growth--China--Wenzhou Shi.

Church growth.

Christianity and culture--China--Wenzhou Shi.

Christianity and culture.

Wenzhou Shi (China)--Church history.

Wenzhou Shi (China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book depicts the revival of Protestant Christianity among diverse groups of people in the commercially prosperous coastal city of Wenzhou, and shows how resurgent and innovated Christian beliefs and practices in the reform era reveal emerging patterns of power formation, place making and morality building in the context of a market-oriented, modernizing China..

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804776424

0804776423

OCLC:

714569448