The Divine and Mystical Realm
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12958542 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Teresa Zimmerman-Liu (0000-0002-7766-2163, University of California San Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 239-266 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences and Missions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1874-8945 • E-ISSN: 1874-8937 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18748945-02702017 |
| OpenAlex | W1595845800 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
Indigenous Chinese preacher Watchman Nee is considered to have had the greatest theological influence on China’s vibrant house church movement, yet there are few studies detailing his influence on church practices. This paper analyzes the writings of Watchman Nee and other Local Church members to show how Nee contextualized the message of Western missionaries to China, using subaltern strategies of returning to scriptural fundamentals and reducing the scale of organization and worship. He divested mission Christianity of its hegemonic trappings and created flexible Christian practices, which take place in the ‘divine and mystical realm,’ out of reach from ‘worldly’ power structures
Aesthetics · China · Christianity · Hegemony · History of religions · Indigenization · Indigenous · Liturgy · Mysticism · Political science · Power (physics · Realm · Sociology · Subaltern · Theology · Worship · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |