Global Chinese Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity

387 Pages·2017·5.842 MB·English

by  Anderson, Allan H., Tong, Joy Kooi-Chin, Yang, Feng gang

Global Chinese Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity
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Global Pentecostal and
Charismatic Studies
Edited by
William K. Kay (Glyndŵr University)
Mark Cartledge (Regent University)
Editorial Board
Kimberly Alexander (Regent University)
Allan Anderson (University of Birmingham)
Jacqueline Grey (Alphacrucis College, Sydney)
Byron D. Klaus (Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, Springfield, mo)
Wonsuk Ma (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies)
Jean-Daniel Plüss (European Pentecostal/Charismatic Research Association)
Cecil M Robeck, Jr (Fuller Theological Seminary)
Calvin Smith (King’s Evangelical Divinity School)
VOLUME 22
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Global Chinese Pentecostal and
Charismatic Christianity
Edited by
Fenggang Yang
Joy K.C. Tong
Allan H. Anderson
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Cover illustration: “Pentecost” by James Qi He (www.heqiart.com). Used with kind permission by the artist.
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Title: Global Chinese Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity / edited by
Fenggang Yang, Joy K.C. Tong, Allan H. Anderson.
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Notes on Contributors x
Pentecostals and Charismatics among Chinese Christians:
An Introduction 1
Fenggang Yang, Joy K.C. Tong and Allan H. Anderson
part 1
Historical, Global, and Local Contexts
1 Contextualizing the Contemporary Pentecostal Movement in China 17
Donald E. Miller
2 Chinese Ecstatic Millenarian Folk Religion with Pentecostal Christian
Characteristics? 33
Daniel H. Bays
3 Pentecostalism Comes to China: Laying the Foundations for a Chinese
Version of Christianity 43
J. Gordon Melton
4 Elitism and Poverty: Early Pentecostalism in Hong Kong (1907–1945) 63
Connie Au
part 2
A Chinese Pentecostal Denomination: The True Jesus Church
5 Charismatic Crossings: The Transnational, Transdenominational
Friendship of Bernt Berntsen and Wei Enbo 91
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye
6 Taming the Spirit by Appropriating Indigenous Culture: An
Ethnographic Study of the True Jesus Church as Confucian-Style
Pentecostalism 118
Ke-hsien Huang
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7 Glossolalia and Church Identity: The Role of Sound in the Making of a
Chinese Pentecostal-Charismatic Church 137
Yen-zen Tsai
part 3
Pentecostal or Non-Pentecostal: Self-Identity and Scholarly
Observation
8 Spirituality and Spiritual Practice: Is the Local Church
Pentecostal? 161
Jiayin Hu
9 Are Chinese Christians Pentecostal? A Catholic Reading of
Pentecostal Influence on Chinese Christians 181
Michel Chambon
10 The “Galilee of China”: Pentecostals without Pentecostalism 200
Yi Liu
part 4
New-Wave Charismatics in Chinese Societies
11 “Christianity Fever” and Unregistered Churches in China 219
Selena Y.Z. Su and Allan H. Anderson
12 China’s Patriotic Pentecostals 240
Karrie J. Koesel
13 The Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Mainland China 264
Rachel Xiaohong Zhu
14 City Harvest Church of Singapore: An Ecclesial Paradigm for
Pentecostalism in the Postmodern World 286
Kim-kwong Chan
15 The Localization of Charismatic Christianity among the Chinese in
Malaysia: A Study of Full Gospel Tabernacle 309
Weng Kit Cheong and Joy K.C. Tong
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Contents vii
16 The Femininity of Chinese Christianity: A Study of a Chinese
Charismatic Church and Its Female Leadership 329
Joy K.C. Tong and Fenggang Yang
Conclusion: Challenges, Theories, and Methods in Studying Chinese
“Pentecostalism” 345
Allan H. Anderson
Index 355
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Acknowledgments
It took a long time for this book to progress from conception to fruition. Fund-
ing for the initial stages came in the form of a Global Research Synergy Grant
for Faculty from the College of Liberal Arts of Purdue University in 2012, which
supported fieldwork research in Malaysia, Singapore, and the United States, as
well as a symposium titled “Global ReOrient: Chinese Pentecostal/Charismatic
Movements in the Global East,” held on November 1–3, 2013, at Purdue Univer-
sity, West Lafayette, Indiana, usa. The symposium was organized by Fenggang
Yang and Joy Tong at the Center on Religion and Chinese Society, and cospon-
sored by Purdue’s International Programs, Asian Studies Program, and Reli-
gious Studies Program. We are grateful for the manifold support we received
from many of our colleagues at Purdue University, including International Pro-
grams Dean Michael A. Brzezinski, College of Liberal Arts Dean Irwin Weiser,
Department of Sociology Head Bert Useem, and many others. Most of the
chapters in this volume are based on papers initially presented at the sympo-
sium, and we appreciate the engagement of many more participants, including
a number of other scholars and students of various disciplines, and pastors
of Chinese churches from different parts of the world. We also thank those
authors who did not participate in the symposium but contributed chapters
to this volume, helping to make this scholarly collection more complete and
balanced.
We would like to acknowledge the support provided by the Henry Luce
Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation in the form of research grants
to the Center on Religion and Chinese Society, which enabled us to take the
time and energy necessary to bring this volume to publication. Brill editors In-
grid Heijckers-Velt and Mirjam Elbers and the editors of the Global Pentecos-
tal and Charismatic Studies series provided valuable comments, suggestions,
and encouragement throughout the process of review, revision, and finaliza-
tion. We thank Gene McGarry for his meticulous copyediting, which made the
chapters more coherent in style. We also thank Yunping Tong for the beautiful
map she prepared for this volume.
Fenggang Yang, Joy Tong and Allan Anderson
February 2017
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Notes on Contributors
Allan H. Anderson
is Professor of Mission and Pentecostal Studies at the University of Birming-
ham, England, where he has worked since 1995. Raised and educated in South-
ern Africa, he is the author of numerous articles and several books on global
Pentecostalism, the most recent being An Introduction to Pentecostalism (Cam-
bridge, 2014) and To the Ends of the Earth (Oxford, 2013).
Connie Au
is a theologian of Pentecostalism and ecumenism from Hong Kong. She has a
Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Birmingham and her thesis was pub-
lished as Grassroots Unity in the Charismatic Renewal. She has worked in a Pen-
tecostal Bible college, the Divinity School of Chung Chi College, the Centre for
Catholic Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong
Christian Council.
Daniel H. Bays
Ph.D. (1971), Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Kansas, 1971–2000,
also held an endowed chair at Calvin College, 2000–2012. He has published or
edited several books and multiple articles, including A New History of Christi-
anity in China (Wiley, 2011).
Michel Chambon
is a French Catholic theologian completing a Ph.D. in Anthropology at Boston
University. His thesis for the Canonical License in Theology was about the dif-
fuse belief in ghosts among Catholics in Taiwan. For his Ph.D., he conducted
fieldwork for fourteen months in Northern Fujian within a major Three-Self
Church. He is also engaged in ecumenical dialogue among Catholic, Protes-
tant, and Orthodox Christians.
Kim-kwong Chan
holds a Ph.D. from Ottawa University, Canada, and a Pontifical D.Th. from St.
Paul University, Canada. He received training in the fields of nutrition, agri-
cultural economics, and psychotherapy, and has taught at a medical school,
a business school, and several seminaries. An ordained minister of the Chris-
tian Nationals’ Evangelism Commission (cnec), he served as a nutritionist,
pastor, chaplain, professor, and administrator. He has authored or coauthored
twelve books and more than fifty scholarly articles, mostly on socioreligious
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