Favor Fishing and Punch-Bowl Christians: Ritual and Conversion in a Chinese Protestant Church
This paper presents results from a four and one-half year participant observation study of conversion at a Chinese Protestant church. It was found that a variety of helping behaviors held important consequences for conversion. Church members were found to provide favors and gifts in ways that are un...
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Oxford Univ. Press
2006
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2006, Volume: 67, Issue: 2, Pages: 161-178 |
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