Newly rising urban churches in China and their relationship to the party state

A review of recent publications

Abstract

Surviving the State, Remaking the Church:
A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China Li Ma and Jin Li Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications (Studies in Chinese Christianity), 2017, 187 pp., ISBN 1532634609, US$21.60 (paperback).

Authoritarian Containment:
Public Security Bureaus and Protestant House Churches in Urban China Marie-Eve Reny New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018, 184 pp., ISBN 019069808X, US$74.00 (hardcover).

The Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State in China:
God above Party?
Carsten T. Vala London, New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis (Routledge research on the politics and sociology of China), 2019, x + 231 pp., ISBN 0367209284, GB£38.99 (paperback).