Results for: Sinicization
Following Our Risen Lord
[…] A Journey of Faith: From Childhood Rituals to a Life of Passionate Evangelism, By Levi Wu, March 14, 2025. News and Notes ChinaSource Journal, 2025 Spring Issue Sinicization, Chinafication, or Zhongguohua, guest editor Naomi Thurston, Jordan Wang. For over a decade, ChinaSource Quarterly has been a trusted resource for insights into Christianity and religious […]
A Book for Understanding China’s Registered Church
[…] with us in the future. The book has seven chapters: We Are Christ’s Church! Change and Challenges Church-State Relations—Who’s in Charge? A New Reality The Debate over Sinicization The Great Divide Strengths and Weaknesses In the first chapter, Ten Harmsel provides an introduction to the registered church, addressing such questions as core doctrines, structure, […]
More than Conquerors
[…] Outlining the reasons for the heightened repression of Christians in China, World Watch highlights the government’s efforts to bring religion into line with Communist philosophy through the Sinicization campaign; increased pressure on unregistered churches, including charging pastors with economic or political crimes; the ban on minors attending religious services; and pervasive surveillance of all […]
ZGBriefs | March 27, 2025
[…] bills. Yaling Jiang, an expert of Chinese consumer behavior, takes us behind the scenes of China’s hottest apps. Do you use any? Sponsored Link New ChinaSource Journal: Sinicization, Chinafication, or Zhongguohua The present issue of the ChinaSource Journal explores this and related backgrounds to notions of religious Sinicization not routinely explored in English-language sources. […]
Remaining Faithful amid Challenges: Catholics in China
An Overview
[…] and some of which are new. As is well known, since at least 2015, Chinese authorities have tightened control over religious groups through policies like the “ Sinicization” of religions and the implementation of various measures requiring religious groups and personnel to register with authorities, to positively support the Chinese Communist Party and its […]
ZGBriefs | May 3, 2018
[…] plan, then, should be read as a public transcript produced by the CCC/TSPM to demonstrate that they are on board with the official Party-state agenda of 中国化(Zhonguo hua – Sinicization). It’s a signal that they have heard the message loud and clear. “You want Sinicization? We can do Sinicization!” Henan’s difficult choices for the Catholic (April 30, […]
Resource Corner
The Registered Church in China
Flourishing in a Challenging Environment
[…] Chapter 1: We Are Christ’s Church! Chapter 2: Change and Challenges Chapter 3: Church-State Relations—Who’s in Charge? Chapter 4: A New Reality Chapter 5: The Debate Over Sinicization Chapter 6: The Great Divide Chapter 7: Strengths and Weaknesses Conclusion Appendix: Religious Affairs Regulations Index An Excerpt from Chapter 3 In the early 1950s an […]
Developments in Registered Church Ministry
[…] everyone said that things are normal. They are carrying on ministry as they always have. The pastors had to attend training regarding the new regulations and the Sinicization campaign—but lots of meetings are normal for Beijing pastors. There were a couple of telling exceptions to this normalcy. One was the issue of Sunday school. […]
Supporting Article
Ministry Insights under a Nationalistic Trend
[…] Chauncey Jung, “Xuzhou’s Chained Woman Highlights China’s Human Trafficking Problem,” The Diplomat, February 23, 2022, accessed February 7, 2023, https://thediplomat.com/2022/02/xuzhous-chained-woman-highlights-chinas-human-trafficking-problem/. This falls under the banner of Sinicization of religion. See “The Sinicization of Religion,” Chinese Church Voices: ChinaSource Blog, December 5, 2017, accessed February 2, 2023, sinicization-of-religion/">https://www.chinasource.org/resource-library/chinese-church-voices/the-sinicization-of-religion/. The Back to Jerusalem Movement […]
Faith and Resilience
The Journey of Chinese Catholics Amid Modern Challenges
[…] the complexities and depth of faith within China’s Catholic community. Scholars, clergy, and laypeople alike have contributed insights that bridge historical context with the present-day realities of Sinicization, underground churches, and the day-to-day lives of ordinary Catholics who continue to worship under watchful state oversight. This Quarterly goes beyond scholarly analysis; it fosters understanding […]