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8 reviewsChina's Catholics
Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society
Contents
Available online to University of California faculty, staff, and students only.
Acknowledgments
Note on Romanization
Introduction — The Context of Chinese Catholicism, p 1
• Catholicism and China's Spiritual Crisis
• The Problem of Civil Society
• "Catholics Are Nothing but Trouble": Fieldwork in China
• Civil Society and the Catholic Church
Chapter One — Hierarchy and History: The Problem of Authority in the Chinese Catholic Church, p 26
• Catholic Hierarchy and Chinese Political Hierarchy
• The Catholic Church and the Communist Party
• Reform, Opening, and Division
• The Bitter Fruit of Hierarchical Ambiguity: The Case of Tianjin
• The Liabilities of Hierarchy in Ambiguous Times
Chapter Two — Community and Solidarity, p 51
• Catholicism as Ethnicity
• Repression and Community Solidarity
• Solidarity and Animosity
• Catholic Community Atmosphere
• Open and Closed Communities
Chapter Three — Morality and Spirituality, p
• Morality and Character
• Loyalty as the Cardinal Virtue
• Loyalty as a Central Vice
• Spirituality and the Resolution of Moral Dilemmas
• Mary, Miracles, and the Institutional Church
• Antimodernism
• Obedience and Freedom
• The Catholic Vocation
Chapter Four — Urban Catholicism and Civil Society, p
• Varieties of Urban Faith
• The Challenge of Modernity
• Theological Renewal
• The Church: A Resource or an Obstacle for Civil Society?
Chapter Five — The Catholic Church and Civil Society, p 127
• Institutional Differentiation
• The Urban Middle Class
• Civic Morality
• Catholic Reform
• The Catholic Church in Greater China
• The World of God and the Kingdom of God
Notes, p 149
Bibliography, p