G P Breen
Biographic Data
| ID | 46006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G P Breen |
| GIVEN NAMES | G P |
| FAMILY NAME | Breen |
| SIGNATURE | BREEN G P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5468-145X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Get Out of Your Mind, Brother!”
This article describes the pursuit of “flow” states within a global Christian following of two famous Chinese Christian preachers, Watchman Ni (1903–1972) and Witness Li (1905–1997). Within this group, whose ideas and practices are deeply rooted in wider Chinese patterns of thought and interaction, “the mind” is rejected. In an attempt to expand its meta-model of mind, I argue that while the “anthropology of mind” thus far has shown how mental he…
Brothers as bridesmaids
This paper explores when, where, and how masculinity becomes reflexively foregrounded in people’s lives and identities as an ethical question. Focusing on followers of Chinese Christian fundamentalist reformers Watchman Nee (1903–1972) and Witness Lee (1905–1997) in Taiwan and the UK, it examines how gender hierarchies emerge and are subtly contested within this transnational religious movement. The group’s theology centres on a collective-femini…
Always Something Missing
What does it take to experience grace? I argue that for followers of the Chinese Christian reformers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee, in China, Taiwan, and the United States, grace is experienced as an intended gift with a missing motivating intention. For a group in which God's intentions are rigorously mapped out, experiencing God's grace is thus no simple feat. In particular, I show how the experience of grace occurs in moments of apparent wrongd…
Oneness and ‘the church in Taiwan’
Worldwide followers of the late Chinese Christian reformers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee share a central concern with human-divine ‘oneness’, but there are different understandings in different localities about how such oneness works. I utilize one such difference by analyzing group unity in Euro-America using Taiwanese understandings of oneness, which involve things (selfsame unities) but not relations. Experimenting with Dumontian, Strathernian…
Always Something Missing
What does it take to experience grace? I argue that for followers of the Chinese Christian reformers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee, in China, Taiwan, and the United States, grace is experienced as an intended gift with a missing motivating intention. For a group in which God's intentions are rigorously mapped out, experiencing God's grace is thus no simple feat. In particular, I show how the experience of grace occurs in moments of apparent wrongd…
Oneness and ‘the church in Taiwan’
Worldwide followers of the late Chinese Christian reformers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee share a central concern with human-divine ‘oneness’, but there are different understandings in different localities about how such oneness works. I utilize one such difference by analyzing group unity in Euro-America using Taiwanese understandings of oneness, which involve things (selfsame unities) but not relations. Experimenting with Dumontian, Strathernian…
Always Something Missing
What does it take to experience grace? I argue that for followers of the Chinese Christian reformers Watchman Nee and Witness Lee, in China, Taiwan, and the United States, grace is experienced as an intended gift with a missing motivating intention. For a group in which God's intentions are rigorously mapped out, experiencing God's grace is thus no simple feat. In particular, I show how the experience of grace occurs in moments of apparent wrongd…
“Get Out of Your Mind, Brother!”
This article describes the pursuit of “flow” states within a global Christian following of two famous Chinese Christian preachers, Watchman Ni (1903–1972) and Witness Li (1905–1997). Within this group, whose ideas and practices are deeply rooted in wider Chinese patterns of thought and interaction, “the mind” is rejected. In an attempt to expand its meta-model of mind, I argue that while the “anthropology of mind” thus far has shown how mental he…
Brothers as bridesmaids
This paper explores when, where, and how masculinity becomes reflexively foregrounded in people’s lives and identities as an ethical question. Focusing on followers of Chinese Christian fundamentalist reformers Watchman Nee (1903–1972) and Witness Lee (1905–1997) in Taiwan and the UK, it examines how gender hierarchies emerge and are subtly contested within this transnational religious movement. The group’s theology centres on a collective-femini…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Witness (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Affect (linguistics) (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · China (1 work) · Christian Theology and Mission (1 work) · Christianity (1 work) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (1 work)