House church Christianity in China: from rural preachers to city pastors

Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Introduction -- Religion and State in Post-1949 China -- Strategic Tolerance: 1949-1957 -- Suppression: 1958-1979 -- Relaxation: 1979 Onwards -- New Approaches to the Study of ChineseChristianity -- Urbanization and Religious Movements -- Weber's Thesis on Modernization -- Chapter Overview -- References -- 2: Discovering Linyi -- A Christian Connection -- Variations of Political Circumstance -- The Transnational Network: Linyi to the World -- Subjectivity -- References -- 3: Christianity and the Emergence of House Churches in Linyi