The Undercurrent Coming to the Surface: Pentecostal Strategies, Entrepreneurship, and the Nation State in the Chinese World

This paper explores the convergence and divergence in the development of Chinese Christianity and the global surge of Pentecostalism by focusing on the evolution and expansion of an indigenous Pentecostal sector in Chinese Christianity. Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork among prosperous urb...

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1. VerfasserIn: Cao, Nanlai (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Equinox Publ. [2020]
In: PentecoStudies
Jahr: 2020, Band: 19, Heft: 1, Seiten: 8-35
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B China / Pfingstbewegung / Entrepreneurship / Staat
IxTheo Notationen:KBM Asien
KDG Freikirche
KDH Christliche Sondergemeinschaften
NBG Pneumatologie; Heiliger Geist
ZC Politik
weitere Schlagwörter:B Pentecostalism
B Nationalism
B Chinese Diaspora
B Europe
B Entrepreneurship
B Chinese Christianity
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Zusammenfassung:This paper explores the convergence and divergence in the development of Chinese Christianity and the global surge of Pentecostalism by focusing on the evolution and expansion of an indigenous Pentecostal sector in Chinese Christianity. Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork among prosperous urban church communities in coastal southeast China and the growing Chinese merchant diaspora in Europe, I show that the Pentecostal undercurrent sustained by mostly charismatic women and their rural networks has come to surface and been increasingly transformed by an entrepreneurial male-dominated prosperity gospel. The surfacing of this Chinese Pentecostal undercurrent under the current context of China’s state-led modernization and global business outreach has resulted in a combination of entrepreneurial logic, spiritual renewal, and emotional nationalism in a self-envisioned Chinese-led global mission movement, contributing to the growth of a neo-Pentecostal sector of post-Mao, globalizing Chinese Christianity.
ISSN:1871-7691
Enthält:Enthalten in: PentecoStudies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/pent.41047