Authoritarian Containment: Public Security Bureaus and Protestant House Churches in Urban China

by Marie-Eve Reny

Book Overview

In Authoritarian Containment, Marie-Eve Reny examines why local public security bureaus tolerate unregistered Protestant churches in urban China--an officially atheist country where religious practice is controlled by the state--when the central government considers them illegal. She argues that local states tolerate these churches to contain the underground practice of Protestantism. Containment necessitates a bargain between informal religious organizations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019069808X
• ISBN13: 9780190698089
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"