Authoritarian containment : public security bureaus and Protestant house churches in urban China / Marie-Eve Reny.
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 also notes that...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | 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 also notes that other authoritarian regimes have employed a similar strategies to control the activities of informal religious organizations. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 019069808X 9780190698089 |