Carsten T Vala

Biographic Data

ID4448083
NAMECarsten T Vala
GIVEN NAMESCarsten T
FAMILY NAMEVala
SIGNATUREVALA C T
AFFILIATIONSLoyola University Maryland
ORCID0000-0002-7027-2955
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Pathways to the Pulpit

    Carsten T ValaCHAPTERMaking Religion, Making the State2020

  • Religious Entrepreneurism in China’s Urban House Churches

    Carsten T ValaARTICLEReview of Religion and Chinese…2020

  • Negotiations and Diversifications of China’s Christianities

    Carsten T ValaARTICLEReview of Religion and Chinese…2019

  • Looking Back, Looking Forward

    Carsten T ValaARTICLEReview of Religion and Chinese…2019

    This essay sketches the current state of fieldwork-based studies of Christianity in China, focusing on monographs published from 2008 to 2018. It discusses strengths and gaps in research paradigms (religious economy or market theory; rational-actor bargaining; institutional theory; religious ecology), levels of analysis (macro- or national level; meso- or regional level; micro- or congregational level), and modes of interaction (resistance-domina…

  • Online and Offline Religion in China

    Open AccessCarsten Vala, Carsten T Vala et al.ARTICLEReligions2019Cited by: 2References: 24

    Studies of digital religion frequently take democratic regime settings and developed economic contexts for granted, leaving regime and economic development levels as background factors (Campbell 2013). However, in China, the role of the authoritarian state, restrictions on religion, and rapid social change mean that online and offline religious practices will develop in distinct ways. This article analyzes the 2019 Bible handcopying movement prom…

  • China and Islam

    Carsten T ValaARTICLESociology of Islam2018

  • Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State in China

    Carsten T ValaBOOKPolitics of Protestant Churches…2017

  • The Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State in China

    Carsten T ValaBOOKPolitics of Protestant Churches…2017

    Among China’s restive religious and social groups, Protestants have arguably created the most sustained structural challenges to the Chinese Communist Party’s ordering of society. By drawing on grassroots fieldwork conducted across the country, this book therefore charts the ambition of the government to restrain Protestant population growth and direct it towards regime purposes. In particular, interviews with key church leaders who founded illeg…

  • Members among New Andrew Carnegie Fellows

    Open AccessSean P Kelly, Daniel Kirsch et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2015

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  • China's New Confucianism

    Open AccessCarsten T ValaARTICLEReligious Studies Review2012

  • Attraction Without Networks

    Carsten Vala, Carsten T Vala et al.ARTICLEMobilization An International…2007Cited by: 8

    Social movements research points to the role of networks in recruiting intimates and public spaces in recruiting strangers. But for Chinese Protestants, creative outreach strategies can be a substitute for existing relationships and initiate recruitment. In China, public proselytizing is forbidden, religion is rarely mentioned in the media, and direct contact with potential converts is discouraged. To attract strangers, evangelists in China rely …