Christian entrepreneurs and the post-Mao state: an ethnographic account of church-state relations in China's economic transition.(2006 Robert J. McNamara Student Paper Award Winner)
From: Sociology of Religion
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Date: 3/22/2007
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Author: Cao, Nanlai
This paper examines the rise of a group of affluent urban Christians in the post-Mao market transition to shed light on China's church-state relations in the reform era. Based on ethnographic data collected in Wenzhou, the most Christianized Chinese city and a pioneer in developing China's current market economy, this study portrays how local believers, many of whom are private entrepreneurs, engage postsocialist state power. It shows that these Christian entrepreneurs actively seek the ...
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