Being a Christian in today’s China is challenging in many ways. The difficulties are not just political but social, cultural, and material in nature as well. As the global church, the more we understand the context of Chinese Christians, the better we can support and effectively serve the church in China.
Learn about the historical, social, and political context of Christians in China, as well as the external and internal challenges they are facing today.
The last decade has seen an increase in the number of young Chinese scholars choosing to make Christianity part of their academic studies. Who are these young scholars?
A look at the political, rhetorical, historical, and theological contexts of sinicization.
We continue our series on research and the indigenous Chinese church with part three—a look at some of the publically available resources for research in China.
Christianity in China is entering a new stage in the church-state relationship. How should the church respond?
China is complicated. Good questions about China beget more questions. Sorting out the complexity is not easy, but for someone wanting to get a handle on the key trends shaping China and impacting China’s church, this podcast is a great place to start.
Two book reviews provide Eastern (WANG Jun ) and Western (Richard Cook) perspectives on Surviving the State, Remaking the Church: A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China by Li Ma and Jin Li in which the responses to faith by Chinese Christians in mainland China since 1949 are explored through many interviews.
Some interesting statistics from the new government White Paper on religious belief and practice in China.
A superb book about a very significant topic.
Pastor Wang Zhenmin says homogenization is one of the major crises facing China’s church.
Selected by the International Bulletin of Mission Research as one of the ten outstanding books of 2017 for Missions Studies, this sociological portrait presents how Chinese Christians have coped with life under a hostile regime over a span of different historical periods, and how Christian churches as collective entities have been reshaped by ripples of social change.