The Emergence of New Forms of Protestantism in Contemporary Beijing and their Publicness.

摘要

Since the 1990s, Protestantism has been experiencing the revival in urban China. However, the development path of urban Protestantism varies in different in different areas. Compared to other cities, Beijing Protestantism is showing the new forms and has a significant impact on the public realm.;By using the most updated data obtained from years of fieldwork, this dissertation attempts to study the rising and the publicness of Beijing Protestantism with case studies of different types of churches. This study argues that the revival of urban Protestantism results from the structural transition of contemporary Chinese society, politics and culture. According to various theories on publicness, the developing Protestantism in Beijing has indeed demonstrated a variety of publicness, in the forms of its participation in public sphere formation, civic community building and civil disobedience, etc.