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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)
During the 1980s, more and more people in China turned to religion. The turn toward religion included young and old, rural and urban, people who were nearly illiterate and university professors. While many came to Christianity, others returned to Confucianism, Islam, and Buddhism.
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
<p>A sociological analysis as well as a theological discussion of China’s internal migration since the marketization reform in 1978.</p>
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
<p>In China, the “post-eighties” denotes those who are were generally born during the 1980s. They are the earliest generation of those who became known in the West as the “Little Emperors” of China. Typically, they were raised in a family environment where all adults focused their attention on their only heir. R and J […]
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 […]