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The Chinese governments destruction of churches and repression of its burgeoning Christian population has become a regular headline in the global press. The reality is more complex, Carsten Vala reveals, involving both repression as well as complex patterns of negotiation, even with illegal churches. Valas study of Protestants in China offers a sophisticated theory of authoritarian rule, empirical drama, and astonishing new information on religion in China a research feat in itself. The upshot is a new standard of excellence in the literature on religion and politics.

Professor Daniel Philpott, University of Notre Dame

The Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State provides new insight into official and unregistered churches in China, the porous and competitive boundaries between them, and their patterns of negotiation with the Party-state. It is an important addition to debates on religion and the state in China.

Professor Karrie J. Koesel, University of Notre Dame

Based on years of original field research, Carsten Valas exciting new book challenges conventional depictions of the relationship between Chinas Communist Party-state and religious organizations. The proposed domination-negotiation framework provides nuanced insight into the paradoxical co-existence of repression and unexpected space for religious practice under authoritarianism.

Professor Kellee S. Tsai, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

This is a very carefully researched book with nuanced theoretical arguments. Carsten Vala constructs a domination-negotiation model to describe and explain the dynamics of church-state interactions in China today, which accounts well for the emergence and growth of large house-church congregations in major cities in the twenty-first century.

Professor Fenggang Yang, Purdue University

The Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State in China

Among Chinas restive religious and social groups, Protestants have arguably created the most sustained structural challenges to the Chinese Communist Partys ordering of society. By drawing on grassroots fieldwork conducted across the country, this book charts the ambition of the government to restrain Protestant population growth and direct it toward regime purposes.

In particular, interviews with key church leaders who founded illegal Protestant congregations with hundreds of participants reveal how officials and illegal congregational leaders have developed ties of trust and information that have permitted church growth, even as they preserve a public image of Party domination. Thus, by tracing the rise of large, illegal Protestant congregations apart from Party-state structures, this book highlights the importance of the public behavior of religious actors and regime officials in understanding the dynamics of negotiation, domination, and resistance in twenty-first century China. Ultimately, The Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State in China paradoxically demonstrates that societal actors can alter the boundaries set by the Chinese Communist Party and that the Party is both more adaptive and resilient in its relations with society than first imagined.

Offering the first book-length analysis of how ambitious Protestants have founded large, unregistered churches despite regime pressure, this book will be useful for students and scholars of Chinese Politics, Chinese Religion, and Sociology.

Carsten T. Vala is Associate Professor and Chairman in the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland, USA.

Routledge Research on the Politics and Sociology of China

Series Editor: Reza Hasmath

University of Oxford, UK

The modern Chinese state has traditionally affected every major aspect of the domestic society. With the growing liberalization of the economy, coupled with an increasing complexity of social issues, there is a belief that the state is retreating from an array of social problems, from health to the environment. Yet, as we survey Chinas social and political landscape today, we see not only is the central state playing an active role in managing social problems, but state actors at the local level are emerging in partnerships with relatively new actors such as social organizations and private enterprises.

The Routledge Research on the Politics and Sociology of China series is interested in examining the sociology and politics of this new China. The series will engage with contemporary research that explores the intricacies of institutional interactions, and analysis of micro-level actors such as migrant workers, ethnic minorities, and women, who are shaping Chinas future. The book series seeks to promote a discourse and analysis that views state and society as contested spaces for power, authority and legitimacy. As a guiding principle, the series is notably interested in books that use China as a laboratory for confirming, modifying or rejecting existing mainstream theories in sociology and politics.

For a full list of titles: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Research-on-the-Politics-and-Sociology-of-China/book-series/RRPSC

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The Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State in China
God Above Party?
Carsten T. Vala

The Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State in China

God Above Party?

Carsten T. Vala

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2018 Carsten T. Vala

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Vala, Carsten T., author.
Title: The politics of Protestant churches and the party-state in China : God above party? / Carsten T. Vala.
Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge research on the politics and sociology of China | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017011079| ISBN 9781138036901 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315178202 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: ChinaChurch history20th century. | Church and stateChinaHistory20th century. | Christianity and politicsChinaHistory20th century. | Protestant churchesChinaHistory20th century.
Classification: LCC BR1288 .V35 2017 | DDC 322/.109510904dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017011079

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