The localization of Catholicism and a personal God-human relation in Chenwu, a Hakka village in South China

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10.2991/asshm-13.2013.13How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Catholicism, localization, religious practice, God-human relation, Fieldwork

Abstract

The author conducted field research on the religious practices and spiritual worlds of Hakka Catholics in Chenwu Village of Heping County, city of Heyuan. The findings show that these Chinese Catholics have localized their religion as influenced by their rural village context. These Catholics follow practices and ide-as that are distinct from those of “ortho-dox” Catholics. An emphasis on a per-sonal relation between God and humans lies at the core of these distinctions.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Di Shao
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TI  - The localization of Catholicism and a personal God-human relation in Chenwu, a Hakka village in South China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Humanities, and Management
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SN  - 1951-6851
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