Christian Social Activism and Rule of Law in Chinese Societies

Chris White is assistant director of the Center on Religion and the Global East at Purdue University. Fenggang Yang is professor of Sociology and director of the Center on Religion and the Global East at Purdue University.

Chapter One: A Historical Overview of Chinese Christian Activism: Institutional Change toward Democracy

Fenggang Yang and Chris White



Section One: Republic of China on Taiwan

Introduction: Chinese Christian Activism in the Republic of China on Taiwan

Jonathan Seitz

Chapter Two: Taiwan Under Martial Law and Presbyterian Responses

Jonathan Seitz

Chapter Three: To Unite as One Body: The Presbyterians and Changing Identities in Taiwan

Magdaléna Rychetská

Section Two: Hong Kong

Introduction: Chinese Christian Activism in Hong Kong

Fenggang Yang and Chris White

Chapter Four: Religious Discourse, Social Participation, and Identity Construction of Hong Kong Protestant Christians from 1970 to 1997: An Analysis of Three Oral Histories

Wai Luen Kwok

Chapter Five: Contesting for Religious Freedom in China: The Case of Hong Kong Christian Social Activism from 2014 to 2018

Fuk-tsang Ying

Chapter Six: Identity Negotiation and Social Activism: Hong Kong Christians during the Umbrella Movement

Jenny McGill, Kim Kuen Ip, Jeffrey Chiu, and Timotheus Mui

Chapter Seven: Hong Kong Theology as a Construction of Postcolonial Theology

Tsz Him Lai

Chapter Eight: Social Media as a Tool of Social Activism: Public Theology of the Umbrella City Cyberchurch

Calida Chu

Section Three: People’s Republic of China

Introduction: Chinese Christian Activism in Mainland China

Fenggang Yang and Chris White

Chapter Nine: Facing Society from the Chinese Academy: Cultural Christians, Sino-Christian Theology, and Academics as Activists

George Dunn and Xinzhang Zhang

Chapter Ten: Religious Policy on Foreign Christians in China: International Christian Fellowships and the Regulations on Foreigners’ Religious Activities

Shiho Murakami

Chapter Eleven: Gospel-leafleting, Three-Self-Affiliated Congregations and Rule of Law in the PRC

Mark McLeister

Chapter Twelve: One Foot above Liberalism: Wang Yi’s Search for Civil Society

Yucheng Bai

Chapter Thirteen: Christian Faith Confessions in the Chinese Jiating Church Context: The Discourse of Sovereignty and the Political Order

Yan Liu

Section Four: Global China

Introduction: Chinese Christian Activism in Global China

Fenggang Yang and Chris White

Chapter Fourteen: Baorong Duoyuan: A Proposal for Religious Freedom in China

Bob Fu

Chapter Fifteen: Migration, Conversion, and Transnational Activism in a Vancouver Chinese Church

Joshua Tan

Chapter Sixteen: “One More Christian, One Fewer Activist” – Does Christianity Squelch Activism? Hypotheses from Studying Former Tiananmen Activists Who Converted to Protestant Christianity

Carsten Vala