Shades of gray in the changing religious markets of China / / edited by Fenggang Yang, Jonathan E. E. Pettit, Chris White.

• Superior document: Religion and the Social Order ; Volume 28
• TeilnehmendeR: Yang, Fenggang,; Pettit, Jonathan E. E.,; White, Christopher M., 1974-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and the social order ; Volume 28.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 pages)

This volume is a collection of studies of various religious groups in the changing religious markets of China: registered Christian congregations, unregistered house churches, Daoist masters, and folk-religious temples. The contributing authors are emerging Chinese scholars who apply and respond to Fenggang Yang's tricolor market theory of religion in China: the red, black, and gray markets for legal, illegal, and ambiguous religious groups, respectively. These ethnographic studies demonstrate a great variety within the gray market, and fluidity across different markets. The volume concludes with Fenggang Yang reviewing the introduction of the religious market theories to China and formally responding to major criticisms of these theories.

Table of Contents

Copyright / Editors: Fenggang Yang , Jonathan E. E. Pettit , and Chris White -- Note to the Reader / Editors: Fenggang Yang , Jonathan E. E. Pettit , and Chris White -- Abbreviations / Editors: Fenggang Yang , Jonathan E. E. Pettit , and Chris White -- Notes on Contributors / Editors: Fenggang Yang , Jonathan E. E. Pettit , and Chris White -- Introduction / Authors: Fenggang , Jonathan E. E. , and Chris -- Part 1 Between Red and Black / Editors: Fenggang Yang , Jonathan E. E. Pettit , and Chris White -- Chapter 1 Becoming "Patriotic" for God / Author: Ke-hsien -- Chapter 2 The Transformation of Mentuhui (Society of Disciples) / Author: Hao -- Chapter 3 Between Interests and Politics / Author: Hui -- Chapter 4 State Appropriation of Society / Author: Deji -- Chapter 5 Worship of the God of Wealth and a Portrait of Rural Public Life / Author: Hao -- Part 2 Group Competition / Editors: Fenggang Yang , Jonathan E. E. Pettit , and Chris White -- Chapter 6 Competing Interests and Conflicting Beliefs / Author: Cuicui -- Chapter 7 House Churches in Northern Jiangsu / Author: Yunze -- Chapter 8 Demands for Faith, Institutional Constraints, and Niche Choices of an Urban Church in China / Author: Zhipeng -- Chapter 9 The Tricolor Market in Yunnan / Authors: Shen and Ling -- Part 3 Beyond Religious Regulation / Editors: Fenggang Yang , Jonathan E. E. Pettit , and Chris White -- Chapter 10 Between the Sacred and the Secular / Authors: Jun and Weizhi -- Chapter 11 Urbanization and the Transformation of Migrant Worker Churches / Author: Hao -- Chapter 12 Modern Individuals in Imagined Communities / Author: Mengyin -- Chapter 13 Choosing between God's Will and the Law / Author: Ling -- Chapter 14 Online Religious Communities in a WeChat Age / Author: Yan -- Conclusion: Whence and Whither Religious Markets in China / Author: Fenggang -- Bibliography / Editors: Fenggang Yang , Jonathan E. E. Pettit , and Chris White -- Index / Editors: Fenggang Yang , Jonathan E. E. Pettit , and Chris White.