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Joel Carpenter

Joel Carpenter works at Calvin College, where he directs the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity. His latest book is Walking Together: Christian Thinking and Public Life in South Africa (ACU Press, 2012). Last year he organized a team of U.S., Canadian, and Chinese scholars which met in China to consider the relationships between religion, social change, and the rule of law.

Faith in China?

How striking to hear a well-known Chinese intellectual insist that the Christianity he saw in the villages of Yunnan, in rugged southwest China, is now as indigenous as the region's famous buckwheat cakes.

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Joel Carpenter May 16, 2012

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Faith in China?

How striking to hear a well-known Chinese intellectual insist that the Christianity he saw in the villages of Yunnan, in rugged southwest China, is now as indigenous as the region’s famous buckwheat cakes.