RYCHETSKÁ, Magdaléna. Persecution and Martyrdoms in China. Online. In Yik-yi Chu, Cindy; Leung, Beatrice. The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, p. 1-35. ISBN 978-981-15-9365-9. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9365-9_14-1.
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Original name Persecution and Martyrdoms in China
Authors RYCHETSKÁ, Magdaléna (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Singapore, The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia, p. 1-35, 35 pp. 2021.
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Other information
Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 60304 Religious studies
Country of publisher Singapore
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form electronic version available online
WWW odkaz na knihu
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/21:00123404
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
ISBN 978-981-15-9365-9
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9365-9_14-1
Keywords in English Catholic Church; Church–state relations; Totalitarian regime ;Persecution; Martyrdom; Sino-Vatican relations; Regulations on Religious Affairs
Tags rivok, topvydavatel
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. et Mgr. Lucie Tomaňová, učo 445546. Changed: 18/5/2022 11:52.
Abstract
Government edicts are unilaterally imposed by the decision-makers, the political elites, without considering those affected by them. The authoritarian government’s relationship as the holder of power and the actions and reactions of Catholics affected by the government’s pronouncements is a complex one. Even under an authoritarian regime, the Catholic Church in China may see itself as needing to develop a mutually supportive relationship with the state. Catholics in China can take one of the two main paths. They can struggle against the government and even mobilize direct opposition to it: as a hierarchical social group, it may have sufficient resources to organize its members to oppose this form of domination. Alternatively, they can seek to cooperate with the government to secure economic, cultural, and symbolic resources. The following chapter focuses on the development of the Catholic Church in China since the establishment of the PRC in 1949. It observes Chinese Catholics of all of the abovementioned groups: the CCPA, the local churches under the CCPA, and the underground Church. The chapter follows their political and cultural struggles under the communist leadership of the PRC. The presented data are based on study of the existing literature and fieldwork which was conducted in Zhejiang province in 2018 and 2019. Data were collected during two fieldwork studies: the first from March to June 2018 and the second in May and June 2019. Both pieces of fieldwork combined semi-structured interviews, narrative interviews, and participant observation. Twenty representatives of the open Catholic Church in China were interviewed.
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MUNI/FF-DEAN/0080/2021, interní kód MUName: Christianity and authoritarian regime in Chinese societies
Investor: Masaryk University, FA Dean's program
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