TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lian Xi
TI  - Redeemed by fire: the rise of popular Christianity in modern China 
SN  - 9780300123395
AV  - BR 1288 .L53 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - China
KW  - Church history
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents; In search of Chinese Christianity --The lightning out of the east : the True Jesus Church --The Jesus Family --The smitten land : China in revival --"Elucidating the way" : an independent preacher's revolt against mission churches --"Flame for God" : John Sung and the Bethel Band --Awaiting rapture : Watchman Nee and the Little Flock --The indigenous church movement through war and revolution --Cries in the wilderness : the underground church in the communist era
N2  - This text addresses the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a collection of sources, the author traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in the 20th-century China from a small 'missionary' church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous opular religion energized by nationalism
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