During a visit to Beruas, a small village-town in West Malaysia in 2005, I was alarmed by the
fact that more and more grandmothers were speaking to their grandchildren in bad …

This book provides a rare window into the micropolitics of contemporary authoritarian rule
through a comparison of religious-state relations in Russia and China-two countries with …

Among China's restive religious and social groups, Protestants have arguably created the
most sustained structural challenges to the Chinese Communist Party's ordering of society …

This study began in the first phase of the recent financial crisis, during which the problem of
debt emerged primarily in the United States where, following the expansion of extremely …

It has been widely recognized that Christianity is the fastest growing religion in one of the
last communist-run countries of the world: the People's Republic of China. Yet it would be a …

Christianity in mainland China has often been characterized as a religion for the
marginalized of society. However, since the 1990s, there has been a growing phenomenon …

Selected as one of Ten Outstanding Books of 2017 for Mission Studies by the International
Bulletin of Mission Research This sociological portrait presents how Chinese Christians …

The Buddha Party tells the story of how the People's Republic of China employs
propaganda to define Tibetan Buddhist belief and sway opinion within the country and …

“You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.” 1 Urbanization is
indelibly redrawing the landscape of China, geographically, as well as socially. A prominent …

This chapter will include as religions all traditions that transmit revelations about the world
that place everyday events in a time of greater scope–cyclical, ancestral, fateful, eternal, or …