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Peoples of China
Conversation with a Migrant-Worker Church Minister
<p>An interview by Dr. Mary Ma with the minister of a migrant worker’s urban church which identifies a number of issues characteristic of urban churches comprised of migrant workers from rural areas. These concerns include living conditions, economic status, long work hours, mobility, and other factors that all contribute to the church’s spiritual health and stability.</p>
The Tricolor Religious Market and the Growth of Christianity
The Great Awakening in China (3)
[…] several projects to document these different segments of the growing Christian population in China. How is it possible to have such religious revivals under Communist repression? My book Religion in China offers a sociological explanation. Without getting into academic jargon, I would simply say that we may compare religion to a market. There are […]
Spiritual Awakenings and Reawakenings
The Great Awakening in China (2)
In the 1980s, people around me began to wake up to spirituality one by one. One example I mentioned in my book Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule. During my graduate study of Western philosophy, a retired factory worker, Mr. Niu, came to teach ancient Greek to my fellow graduate students, […]
Book Reviews
The Dragon’s Gift
The Real Story of China in Africa
[…] appear to support rogue regimes? Is China using aid primarily to gain access to natural resources? Does China make corruption worse? Deborah Brautigam has masterfully written a book that seeks to bring a quartet of disciplines into perspective: history, macro and microeconomics, aid models and attitudes are combined with Chinas transformative aid policy going […]
Who Is Doing Public Theology in China?
A Book Review
[…] of the vast majority of Chinese Christians to still focus on personal piety and on an explicitly disengaged relationship with the sociopolitical context” (p. 9). As the book shows, the social positions of these select doers of Chinese public theology have changed dramatically. In the 1950s, a group of Chinese intellectuals within the Three-Self […]
The Chinese Exodus
Migration, Urbanism and Alienation in Contemporary China
This book offers a sociological analysis as well as a theological discussion of China’s internal migration since the marketization reform in 1978. It documents the social and political processes that encompass the experiences of internal migrants from the countryside to the city during China’s integration into the global economy. Informed by sociology analysis and […]
Lead Article
Chinese Christianity
Turning the Nation Around
[…] that I met over dinner, told how her search for Christianity took a Roman direction. The Catholic cathedral was the only Christian church in the Shanghai phone book where someone answered the phone in a way friendly to enquirers, and where there were unrestricted classes for faith seekers. American Protestants, in fact, might reflect […]
Supporting Article
Liberalism and China’s Churches
[…] word “liberalism” has long been a sensitive term in China’s public dialogue, and it did not come to the surface until the 1990s. Since then, a large number of intellectuals, who care about the social and political issues of the day, have begun to call themselves, or have been called, liberals. While their core […]
Peoples of China
Understanding and Engaging with the Post-Eighties Generation
[…] with their parents, post-eighties children were often accompanied by their grandparents who would relocate in order to continue living with them until they finished high school. A number of factors combined to produce this situation. To begin with, it was a very pragmatic arrangement. As retirees, grandparents usually had sufficient time to provide care […]
Lead Article
The City and the Church
Towards an Urban Theology in China
[…] has an eschatological nature. In this sense, I think that urban sociology can be called an eschatological phenomenology. Ellul claims that there is a reason why the book of Revelation uses Babylon, a city—not a kingdom—to symbolize all human rebellion. The word “city” manifests the conglomeration of human activities. Dallas Willard also points out […]