Gerda Wielander is a Principal Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Westminster, UK.
This book argues that as new political and social values are formed in post-socialist China, Christian values are becoming increasingly embedded in the Chinese outlook. It shows how although Christianity is viewed in China as a foreign religion, Christianity as a source of social and political values - rather than a faith requiring adherence to a church is in fact having a huge impact. The book shows how these values inform both official and dissident ideology, therby challenging commonly held views on contemporary Chinese Christianity as a movement in opposition to the state and showing the diversity and complexity of Christian thinking.
1. An Introduction to Chinese Christianity Today - Key Questions and Issues 2. Christianity and China's Moral Reconstruction 3. Christian Love and China's 'Harmonious Society' 4. Charity: Christian Love in Action? 5. Protestant and Online 6. Christian Intellectuals: Bridging the Gap? 7. Politics and the Transcendental 8. Christian Values in Communist China