Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 11 (2020) : Chinese Religions Going Global.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Bargaining with God in the Name of Family: Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Italian Coffee Bars -- 1 As Immigrant Entrepreneurs -- 2 As Christians -- 3 Moral Dilemmas in the Neighborhood Bar Business -- 4 Negotiating Religious Morality -- 4.1 Clientele Management -- 4.2 Time Management -- 5 Family Values as Bridging Ethics -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 2 From China with Faith: Sinicizing Christianity in Europe -- 1 The Rise of a Household-Based Chinese Christianity in Diaspora -- 2 Migrant Entrepreneurship and Lay Leadership -- 3 Repaying China's "Gospel Debts" to Europe -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 A Bridge between the Spiritual and the Worldly: The Puhuasi Buddhist Temple in Prato (Italy) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Chinese Population in Prato -- 3 Chinese Flexible Religiosity and the Forms It Has Taken in Prato -- 4 The "Social" Function of the Puhuasi -- 5 Who Attends the Puhuasi and Why -- 6 Between Faith, Cultural Identity and Material Needs -- 7 Some Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4 Exploring Chinese Catholicism in the Italian Peninsula: A Sociological Study of the Chinese Catholic Community in Italy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Spread of Chinese Catholic Communities in the Italian Peninsula -- 3 A Sociological Overview of the Chinese Catholic Community in Italy -- 4 Patterns of Settlement of Chinese Catholic Communities in Italy -- 5 Examining Religious Transnationalism within Chinese Catholicism in Italy -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 Encounter, Initiation, and Commitment: Christian Conversion among New Chinese Migrants in Britain -- 1 Introduction: The Chinese Christians in Britain -- 2 Religious Conversion: A Processual Model.

3 Methodology -- 4 Encounter: The Initial Contact with Christianity -- 5 Initiation: The Introduction to Christianity through Culture -- 6 Commitment: The Cultivation of Religious and Communal Belonging -- 7 Conclusion: Conversion and Community -- References -- Chapter 6 Chinese Christian Community in Germany: Home-Making and Chineseness -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transnationalism and Ethnic Enclave -- 3 The Chinese Christian Network in Germany -- 4 Chinese Sunday Worship -- 5 The Church versus the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (cssa) -- 6 From Diversity to Difference -- 7 Battlefield and Home Away from Home -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Going Global and Back Again: The Transformation of Chinese Christian Networks between Southeast Asia and China since the 1980s -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Linking Southeast Asia and China: Huaqiao as Bridges -- 3 Huaqiao Contributions to Church Building -- 4 "Foreign" Support? Huaqiao Contributions as Remittances -- 5 Theological Investment: Qiaoxiang and Beyond -- 5.1 Economic and Generational Shifts -- 5.2 Theological Investment: Social Remittances of Southeast Asian Chinese -- 6 Conclusion -- 6.1 Acknowledgements -- 6.2 Funding -- References -- Chapter 8 The Ironies of Bringing Christ to the Motherland: The Interaction Ritual Chains of Chinese-Canadian Evangelicals over Short-Term Missions to China -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Situating Transnational Short-Term Missions in Modernity -- 3 Theoretical Framework -- 4 Methodology -- 5 Irony 1: Chinese vs. Canadian -- 6 Irony 2: Global Christendom vs. Neo-Colonialism -- 7 Irony 3: Fundamentalism vs. Modernity -- 8 Discussion: Entangled Chains -- 9 Conclusion: Entangled Chains in Modernity -- References -- Chapter 9 Between Cultural Reproduction and Cultural Translation: A Case Study of Yiguandao in London and Manchester.

1 Cultural Reproduction and Cultural Translation -- 2 Three Stages of the Yiguandao Mission in the UK -- 3 Cultural Reproduction: The Vietnamese Chinese Followers of Yiguandao in London -- 4 Cultural Translation: The Western Followers of Yiguandao in London and Manchester -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10 Global Dao: The Making of Transnational Yiguandao -- 1 Introduction1 -- 2 The Global Spread of Yiguandao: Periods of Transnationalization -- 3 A Case Study of Andong Division's Transplantation to Vienna, Austria -- 4 Adaptive Modes and Patterns of Transnationalization -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11 Tension between the Chinese Government and Transnational Qigong Groups: Management by the State and Their Dissemination Overseas -- 1 The Chinese Government's Management of Qigong Organizations -- 2 Falun Gong, Puti Gong and Tian Gong -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12 To Be or Not to Be a Confucian: Explicit and Implicit Religious Identities in the Global Twenty-First Century -- 1 The Puzzle: To Be or Not to Be a Confucian -- 2 Religious Identity: Reconsidering a Concept -- 3 From Explicit Religious Identity to Implicit Religious Identity -- 4 The Case of Global Confucianism: From Implicit Identity to Explicit Identity -- 5 Religious Identity and the Monotheistic Milieu -- 6 Religious Identity and Religious Activism -- 7 Religious Identity and the Identity Requirements of the State -- 8 Transnational and Global Confucianism: The Future of Religious Identity -- References -- Chapter 13 Diverse Religious Experiences among Overseas Chinese in the United Arab Emirates -- 1 Introduction1 -- 2 Locating Overseas Chinese Community in the uae -- 3 Chinese Christians in the "Spiritual Oasis" -- 4 Chinese State and Its Muslim "Qiaomin"(僑民) -- 5 Making Buddhist Space in Dubai: Beyond Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy.

6 Folk Religion and Quasi-Religious Spaces -- 7 Conclusion: Chinese Religious Spaces in a Cosmopolitan Muslim Society -- References -- Chapter 14 Chinese Muslim Diaspora Communities and the Role of International Islamic Education Networks: A Case Study of Dubai -- 1 Introduction1 -- 2 Islam in China - a Brief Historical Overview -- 3 Acculturation and the Development of Indigenous Islamic Education Systems -- 4 Dubai - the World's Most International City -- 5 Dragon Mart - Where the World, or at Least the Gulf Shops -- 6 Growing Presence of Chinese Muslims in Dubai -- 7 The Role of Islamic Education Networks -- 8 Role of Converts -- 9 Local Muslim Community Organizations in Dubai -- 10 A "Foreign Quarter 坊 Mosque" Comes to the Middle East -- 11 Role of Chinese Embassy Officials -- 12 Creating a New Society? - Changing Attitudes towards Transnational Identities, Mixed Marriages and Hunxuar Children -- 13 Conclusion -- References -- Index.

This volume explores Chinese religions on a global stage so as to challenge the traditional dichotomy of the western global and the Chinese local, and to add a new perspective for understanding religious modernity globally. Contributors from four different continents aim at applying a social scientific approach to systematically researching the globalization of Chinese religions.

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