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== Ethnic Chinese and the rise of Christianity in Southeast Asia ==
== Ethnic Chinese and the rise of Christianity in Southeast Asia ==
''See:'' [[Ethnic Chinese and the rise of Christianity in Southeast Asia]]
''See also:'' [[Ethnic Chinese and the rise of Christianity in Southeast Asia]]
Singapore Management University reports:
{{Cquote|...more and more people in Southeast Asia are converting to Christianity. But these new converts – mostly ethnic Chinese – are drawn particularly to [[Charismatic movement|charismatic Christianity]].
This new wave of religious fervour accounts for the rise of “mega churches” in this part of the world. Juliette Koning and her colleague, Heidi Dahles of VU University Amsterdam, had been studying Indonesia and Malaysia respectively when they first took notice of how many ethnic Chinese business managers were embracing charismatic Christianity. They decided to study this phenomenon through an anthropological lens and presented their findings in their paper, 'Spiritual Power: Ethnic Chinese Managers and the Rise of Charismatic Christianity in Southeast Asia'...
Koning noted that there was a rapid expansion of charismatic Christianity from the 1980s onwards. Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia are said to have the fastest-growing Christian communities and the majority of the new believers are “upwardly mobile, urban, middle-class Chinese”. Asia has the second largest Pentecostal-charismatic Christians of any continent, with the number growing from 10 million to 135 million between 1970 and 2000.<ref>[https://www.smu.edu.sg/perspectives/2012/06/26/understanding-rapid-rise-charismatic-christianity-southeast-asia UNDERSTANDING THE RAPID RISE OF CHARISMATIC CHRISTIANITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA], Singapore Management University, 2010</ref>}}
== China, state atheism and persecution ==
== China, state atheism and persecution ==