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Emergent Spaces“God Loves Taxi Drivers”: Christian Translation, Publicity, and Emergent Spaces in Shanghai

Emergent Spaces: “God Loves Taxi Drivers”: Christian Translation, Publicity, and Emergent Spaces... [This chapter examines how Chinese Christians in Shanghai reimagine the city by constructing small spaces of civility which emerge as sites for the remaking the urbanscape. This reimagination of the city constitutes a Christian claim to the city that marks it as a space in need of spiritual and physical transformation. Christian claims to the city are then made possible through quotidian practices of translation and publicity which convert secular space into Christian social space. By taking the “God Loves Taxi Drivers” outreach as an example, this chapter demonstrates how the performative actions of translation and publicity are deployed to construct Christian discursive and social spaces in Shanghai. While small and temporary, these Christian spaces possess the potential to emerge into larger and permanent spaces in the city.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Emergent Spaces“God Loves Taxi Drivers”: Christian Translation, Publicity, and Emergent Spaces in Shanghai

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Kuppinger, Petra
Hu, Steven
Emergent Spaces — Jan 1, 2022
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-84378-6
Pages
107 –126
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-84379-3_6
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Abstract

[This chapter examines how Chinese Christians in Shanghai reimagine the city by constructing small spaces of civility which emerge as sites for the remaking the urbanscape. This reimagination of the city constitutes a Christian claim to the city that marks it as a space in need of spiritual and physical transformation. Christian claims to the city are then made possible through quotidian practices of translation and publicity which convert secular space into Christian social space. By taking the “God Loves Taxi Drivers” outreach as an example, this chapter demonstrates how the performative actions of translation and publicity are deployed to construct Christian discursive and social spaces in Shanghai. While small and temporary, these Christian spaces possess the potential to emerge into larger and permanent spaces in the city.]

Published: Jan 1, 2022

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