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Title Shades of gray in the changing religious markets of China / edited by Fenggang Yang, Jonathan E.E. Pettit and Chris White
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 378 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Religion and the social order, 1061-5210 ; volume 28
Religion and the social order ; v. 28.
Contents Part 1: Between Red and Black. Becoming "Patriotic" for God : why Churches join state-sanctioned Protestant organizations / Ke-hsien Huang -- The transformation of Mentuhui (Society of Disciples) : constructing legitimacy and adapting to a changing religious economy / Yuan Hao -- Between interests and politics : the changing status of two Protestant churches in China's Tricolor Religious Market / Li Hui -- State appropriation of society : refashioning the Miao through a public display of Christianity / Kong Deji -- Worship of the God of wealth and a portrait of rural public life / Zhao Hao -- Part 2: Group competition. Competing interests and conflicting beliefs : a case study of a Seaside Church in Zhejiang / Zhao Cuicui -- House churches in Northern Jiangsu : patterns of transformation and the state effect / Xiao Yunze -- Demands for faith, institutional constraints, and niche choices of an urban church in China / Zhang Zhipeng -- The Tricolor Market in Yunnan : the Christian life of the Hani / Jiang Shen, He Ling -- Part 3: Beyond religious regulation. Between the sacred and the secular : Zhanjiang Daoshi and the religious economy / Yan Jun, Lin Weizhi -- Urbanization and the transformation of migrant worker churches : a case study of Mount of Olives Church in Beijing / Yuan Hao -- Modern individuals in imagined communities : an anthropological examination of Artist Churches in Songzhuang, Beijing / Hu Mengyin -- Choosing between God's will and the law : a study of Chinese Christians' dilemma over fertility desires and behaviors / Wang Ling -- Online religious communities in a WeChat Age : from public accounts to megagroups / Yan Liu -- Conclusion. Whence and whither religious markets in China / Fenggang Yang
Summary "This volume is a collection of studies of various religious groups in the changing religious markets of China: registered Christian congregations, unregistered house churches, Daoist masters, and folk-religious temples. The contributing authors are emerging Chinese scholars who apply and respond to Fenggang Yang's tricolor market theory of religion in China: the red, black, and gray markets for legal, illegal, and ambiguous religious groups, respectively. These ethnographic studies demonstrate a great variety within the gray market, and fluidity across different markets. The volume concludes with Fenggang Yang reviewing the introduction of the religious market theories to China and formally responding to major criticisms of these theories. Conributors are He Ling, Hu Mengyin, Ke-hsien Huang, Jiang Shen, Knog Deji, LI Hui, Lin Weizhi, Yan Liu, Jonathan E. E. Pettit, Wang Ling, Chris White, Xiao Yunze, Yan Jun, Fenggang Yang, Yuan Hao, Zhang Zhipeng, Zhao Cuicui, Zhao Hao"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 20, 2022)
Subject Religion and state -- China -- History -- 21st century -- Congresses
Religion and law -- China -- History -- 21st century -- Congresses
Religion and sociology -- China -- History -- 21st century -- Congresses
Religion
Religion and law
Religion and sociology
Religion and state
SUBJECT China -- Religion -- 21st century -- Congresses
Subject China
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Yang, Fenggang, editor.
Pettit, Jonathan E. E., editor.
White, Chris (Post-Doctoral Researcher), editor
Religious Groups in a Rapidly Changing Society: East Asia (Conference) (2016 : Seoul, Korea)
LC no. 2021017453
ISBN 9789004456747
9004456740