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This study investigates the historical and political conditions
which have contributed to the state of the Protestant community in
China, and the kinds of spirituality and religious life that it has
evolved. The authors draw on extensive fieldwork, and offer
fascinating insights into the beliefs and practices of a
little-documented section of Chinese society. They show that
healing, protection, and vengeance by gods have been deep-rooted
elements of Chinese religiosity for several hundred years, notions
appropriated by Christians who now emphasize the powers of Jesus.
Chinese Protestantism is seen to result from an interesting blend
of the old and the new, and comparative material is adduced which
sets Protestantism side by side with Catholicism and Buddhism, the
two religions in China of comparable scope. A wide range of sources
are utilized by the authors, and these lead to one of the most
complete and detailed surveys of Christianity in China ever
produced.
Using the theological work of Karl Barth as a resource for
present-day inquiry, the contributors in this volume discuss the
complex interconnections between the religious and the political
designated by the term theo-politics. Speaking from various
political and cultural contexts (Germany, the United Kingdom, the
United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the People's Republic of
China) and different disciplinary perspectives (Protestant
Theology, Political Sciences, and Sociology), the contributors
address contemporary challenges in relating the religious and the
political in Western and Asian societies. Topics analyzed include
the impact of diverse cultural backgrounds on given theo-political
arrangements, theological assessments of political power, the
political significance of individual and communal Christian
existence and the place of Christian communities in civil
societies. In their nuanced discussions of these topics, the
contributors neither advocate for a privatized, apolitical
understanding of the Christian faith nor for a religious politics
seeking to overcome modern processes of differentiation and
secularization. Critically engaging Barth's theology, they examine
the Christian responsibility in and for the political sphere and
reflect on the practice of such responsibility in Western and Asian
contexts.
This study investigates the historical and political conditions
which have contributed to the state of the Protestant community in
China, and the kinds of spirituality and religious life that it has
evolved. The authors draw on extensive fieldwork, and offer
fascinating insights into the beliefs and practices of a
little-documented section of Chinese society. They show that
healing, protection, and vengeance by gods have been deep-rooted
elements of Chinese religiosity for several hundred years, notions
appropriated by Christians who now emphasize the powers of Jesus.
Chinese Protestantism is seen to result from an interesting blend
of the old and the new, and comparative material is adduced which
sets Protestantism side by side with Catholicism and Buddhism, the
two religions in China of comparable scope. A wide range of sources
are utilized by the authors, and these lead to one of the most
complete and detailed surveys of Christianity in China ever
produced.
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