Religious Entrepreneurism in China’s Urban House Churches : The Rise and Fall of Early Rain Reformed Presbyterian Church 1st Edition by Li Ma ISBN 0367785919 9780367785918

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ISBN 10: 0367785919 
ISBN 13: 9780367785918
Author: Li Ma

This book offers a unique historical documentation of the development of the ambitious religious entrepreneurism by leaders of the Early Rain church (and later Western China Presbytery leadership), in an effort to gain social influence in China through local institution-building and global public image management. It unravels the social processes of how this Christian community with a public image of defending religious freedom in China was undermined by an internal loss of moral authority. Based on publicly available texts from Chinese social media that aren’t readily available in the West as well as in-depth interviews, it is framed by existing scholarship in social theories of the public sphere, charismatic domination in social transition, and the role of power in organizational behaviour. These churches’ stories show how Christianity, which has long been politically marginalized in communist China, has not only adapted and challenged the socio-political status quo, but how it was also ironically shaped by the political culture. This is an insightful and critical ethnographic study of one of modern China’s most famous house churches. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Religion in China as well as those working in Religious Studies, Asian studies, Chinese studies, and Mission Studies more generally.

Religious Entrepreneurism in China’s Urban House Churches : The Rise and Fall of Early Rain Reformed Presbyterian Church 1st Table of contents:

Part I Consolidation
1 Dissidents and liberals
White House meeting
Young and famous
“Three musketeers” in Chengdu
June Fourth complex
The churching of Early Rain
2 Redeeming the public sphere
Post-quake calling and outdoor worship
House church with a public vision
Engaging with the political reality
Checks, balances and orthodoxy
National and global connectedness
Setting a high spiritual bar
Controversy of women leadership
3 City to City
The city vision
Cultural relevance
Ordination by PCA
Urban church-planting
Anti-Three-self discourse reinforced
Christian presence on social media
Part II Expansionism
4 Second Reformation
Reformed conservatism
Market niche for Christian education
A vertically connected church
Preaching the “final battle”
“ERRC is a movement”
Controversy of electing Elders
“Top-level design” and hidden crisis
External fame and internal controversies
5 Covenant Reformed School
A classical Christian education movement
Frustrated teachers
Church-planting and the tipping of clergy power
Controversy over WCA
Deposing Bingsen Su
“Yi Wang successfully manipulated public opinions!”
6 “Splitting-style church-planting”
Moving into Baihua Sanctuary
Motions and counter-motions
Thirty-two congregants
“You split the body of Christ on Easter Sunday!”
Post-split impression management
EBC vs. ECC: growing antagonism
Divisions spread overseas
Personality cult in ECC and instability in EBC
Part III Radicalization
7 Challenging Caesar
Enemies of the regime
May 12 memorial prayer meeting and peng’ci (碰瓷)
Sarcasm on Facebook
Online critics
The trial of Huasheng Wang
Exposure and nondisclosure
Radicalized campaigns and the closedown of ECC
8 Global networks
Calvinist popularizers from America
Global media: unintended consequences and perpetuated narratives
Global academia: impressions and analyses
Gaps in Western perception
Conclusion
The rise and fall of Early Rain
A multi-level institutional analysis
Ironies in the public sphere
Glossary

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