UID:
almafu_9959235821402883
Format:
1 online resource (231 p.)
ISBN:
0-8047-7642-3
Series Statement:
East-West Center series on contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific
Content:
This book depicts the revival of Protestant Christianity among diverse groups of people in the commercially prosperous coastal city of Wenzhou, and shows how resurgent and innovated Christian beliefs and practices in the reform era reveal emerging patterns of power formation, place making and morality building in the context of a market-oriented, modernizing China..
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction : putting Christianity and capitalism in their place -- The rise of "boss Christians" and their engagements with state power -- Of manners, morals and modernity : cosmopolitan desires and the remaking of Christian identity -- The business of religion in the "Wenzhou model" of Christian revival -- Gendered agency, gender hierarchy and religious identity making -- Conversion to urban citizenship : rural migrant workers' participation in Wenzhou Christianity -- Conclusion : religious revivalism as a moral discourse of modernity.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-7080-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-7360-2
Language:
English
