Chapter 5 Crossing over the Line
Obtrusive Neon-Light Crosses, New Religious Laws, and Quandaries over Civil Society in the Contemporary People’s Republic of China
In: Citizens of Two Kingdoms: Civil Society and Christian Religion in Greater China
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Lauren F. Pfister
Lauren F. Pfister
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Abstract
The development of a “narrow rule of law” related to Christian and other religious communities in the People’s Republic of China is characterized by events in the past five years within this chapter, and includes a critical review of the new Religious Affairs Regulations that were made into law in early 2018. It is argued that these events and the new legal regulations are producing a diminishing sphere of civil society in the contemporary PRC, and what I refer to as “a civil society of anxiety and self-censorship.”