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Knowing and Being Known: Chinese Society and Christianity
GAO, Shining
GAO, Shining
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Chinese Christianity has been known in contemporary society through three stages. In the years 1949-1979 Christianity was known negatively through Chinese official media. 1980-2000 Christianity developed fast and was accepted as a part of social culture and received a certain amount of sympathy and support from society. From 2000 till to day,the house church has been developing very quickly,and both government and society have gradually come to know the positive sides of Christianity. Through a combination of field work and case study,the present article argues that the ways of knowing Christianity and the means of Christian self-expression are different in the above three stages,and the partial functions of Christianity as part of a civil society have become visible during the process. For the present author, the functions of religions very much depend on the social context of their existence,and Christianity should play a more important role in the fast developing process of civil society in the contemporary China.
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2016
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