Taming the Spirit by Appropriating Indigenous Culture: An Ethnographic Study of the True Jesus Church as Confucian-Style Pentecostalism

Huang, Ke-hsien

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“…This time-honored tradition has been deeply ingrained in Chinese collective consciousness despite the demolition of religious and cultural identities in an atheistic regime. It has contributed to the patriarchal and paternalistic form of house church networks, forging new forms of class hierarchies and stratifications in the urban/rural migration dynamics (Cao, 2010;Huang, 2017).…”

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Leaps in the womb of Asia: Transformative intercultural discipleship in a sacred space

Yang

2023

Missiology

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The 21st century is marked by the explosive growth of Christianity in the Global South. While discipleship is identified as the key to success in the missional movement in the western church, it has been inherently embodied in the indigenous church movement in Asia in the endeavor of evangelism and mission. In addition to the traditional gospel proclamation through church planting strategies, spiritual companionship, a ministry of accompanying someone in a sacred space through deep listening and discernment, has been gradually recognized as an effective one-on-one discipleship in recent years among groups who are receptive to the untamed movement of the Spirit. Using the metaphor of a pregnant mother carrying a baby and experiencing leaps in the womb (Lk 1:41), this article traces the engagement of intercultural discipleship through listening to the sacred stories of several mission leaders in Asia. Following the transformative narratives of their divine encounters, it discerns three key movements of the Spirit, metaphorically speaking, the “leaps” in the womb: listening with trust; turning with symbols; and kicking with expectation. Drawing from the works of anthropologists, theologians, and missiologists, it interacts the contemporary Asian experience with ancient Confucian texts and the Christian Scriptures, nuancing the traditional understanding of intercultural discipleship and evangelism. It aims to show that prophetic spiritual companionship is an integral part of discipleship and evangelism, therefore indispensable to the indigenous church mission movement. It is hoped that it also provides an impetus and resources for teaching and practice of the global church in its endeavor to revitalize faith in a post-Christendom and post-secular world.

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Leaps in the womb of Asia: Transformative intercultural discipleship in a sacred space

Yang

2023

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Restoring religion through collective memory: How Chinese Pentecostals engage in mnemonic practices after the Cultural Revolution

Huang

2018

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China has experienced remarkable religious revivals since the Cultural Revolution. I argue that the revivals rely on religious elites summoning collective memory to restore religion, among other factors. In addition, a micro-level perspective is taken, to see how collective memory, more than a group’s collective representation, is the product and resources of religious elites in pursuit of their own interest; the remembrance of the sacred past is a contested, unfolding process of key actors engaging in varied mnemonic practices. Through data collected from long-term fieldwork, I demonstrate how Chinese Pentecostals, after lengthy political suppression, use religious collective memory to rebuild the national community, strengthen the leadership by proving their orthodox character, and fight against mystical separatists. In conclusion, I explain why religious collective memory matters in the case of China in particular, where the state tends to repress religious institutionalization, and Chinese people emphasize the importance of orthodoxy lineage.

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Sin and Punishment: The Art of Churches’ Domination and the Resistance of Apostates

Chen

2024

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Taming the Spirit by Appropriating Indigenous Culture: An Ethnographic Study of the True Jesus Church as Confucian-Style Pentecostalism

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Leaps in the womb of Asia: Transformative intercultural discipleship in a sacred space

Leaps in the womb of Asia: Transformative intercultural discipleship in a sacred space

Restoring religion through collective memory: How Chinese Pentecostals engage in mnemonic practices after the Cultural Revolution

Sin and Punishment: The Art of Churches’ Domination and the Resistance of Apostates

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