Global Chinese Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity / edited by Fenggang Yang, Joy K.C. Tong, Allan H. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yang, Fenggang, editor.

Series:

Global Pentecostal and Charismatic studies ; Volume 22.

Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, 1876-2247 ; Volume 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pentecostalism--China.

Pentecostalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 pages) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Nijhoff, 2017.

Summary:

This is the first scholarly volume on Chinese Christian Pentecostal and charismatic movements around the globe. The authors include the most active and renowned scholars of global Pentecostalism and Chinese Christianity, including Allan Anderson, Daniel Bays, Kim-twang Chan, Gordon Melton, Donald Miller, and Fenggang Yang. It covers historical linkages between Pentecostal missions and indigenous movements in greater China, contemporary charismatic congregations in China, Singapore, Malaysia, and the United States, and the Catholic charismatic renewal movement in China. The volume also engages discussion and disagreement on whether it is even appropriate to refer to many of the Chinese Christian movements as Pentecostal or charismatic. If not, are they primarily following cultural traditions, or upholding beliefs and practices in the Bible? Contributors are: Allan H. Anderson, Connie Au, Daniel H. Bays, Michel Chambon, Kim-kwong Chan, Weng Kit Cheong, Jiayin Hu, Ke-hsien Huang, Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye, Karrie J. Koesel, Yi Liu, J. Gordon Melton, Donald E. Miller, Selena Y.Z. Su, Joy K.C. Tong, Yen-zen Tsai, Fenggang Yang, Rachel Xiaohong Zhu.

Contents:

Pentecostals and Charismatics among Chinese Christians: An Introduction / Fenggang Yang , Joy K.C. Tong and Allan H. Anderson

Part 1: Historical, Global, and Local Contexts

Contextualizing the Contemporary Pentecostal Movement in China / Donald E. Miller

Chinese Ecstatic Millenarian Folk Religion with Pentecostal Christian Characteristics? / Daniel H. Bays

Pentecostalism Comes to China: Laying the Foundations for a Chinese Version of Christianity / J. Gordon Melton

Elitism and Poverty: Early Pentecostalism in Hong Kong (1907–1945) / Connie Au

Part 2: A Chinese Pentecostal Denomination: The True Jesus Church

Charismatic Crossings: The Transnational, Transdenominational Friendship of Bernt Berntsen and Wei Enbo / Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

Taming the Spirit by Appropriating Indigenous Culture: An Ethnographic Study of the True Jesus Church as Confucian-Style Pentecostalism / Ke-hsien Huang

Glossolalia and Church Identity: The Role of Sound in the Making of a Chinese Pentecostal-Charismatic Church / Yen-zen Tsai

Part 3: Pentecostal or Non-Pentecostal: Self-Identity and Scholarly Observation

Spirituality and Spiritual Practice: Is the Local Church Pentecostal? / Jiayin Hu

Are Chinese Christians Pentecostal? A Catholic Reading of Pentecostal Influence on Chinese Christians / Michel Chambon

The “Galilee of China”: Pentecostals without Pentecostalism / Yi Liu

Part 4: New-Wave Charismatics in Chinese Societies

“Christianity Fever” and Unregistered Churches in China / Selena Y.Z. Su and Allan H. Anderson

China’s Patriotic Pentecostals / Karrie J. Koesel

The Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Mainland China / Rachel Xiaohong Zhu

City Harvest Church of Singapore: An Ecclesial Paradigm for Pentecostalism in the Postmodern World / Kim-kwong Chan

The Localization of Charismatic Christianity among the Chinese in Malaysia: A Study of Full Gospel Tabernacle / Weng Kit Cheong and Joy K.C. Tong

The Femininity of Chinese Christianity: A Study of a Chinese Charismatic Church and Its Female Leadership / Joy K.C. Tong and Fenggang Yang

Conclusion: Challenges, Theories, and Methods in Studying Chinese “Pentecostalism” / Allan H. Anderson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-34281-8

OCLC:

976035269

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004342811 DOI