Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Transforming China Changing Global Balance Power
'Jesus in Beijing' is a book authored by Aikman. The book has taken a keen interest on transformation and the changes taking place in the international power balance and a keen eye on the society within China. Aikman has focused on how the religion of Christianity is slowly penetrating deeper into the society under the rule of the government. The book circulates on the most important Christian matter and Christianity itself within the environs of the society. The book illustrates the idea of churches transforming into socialist protestant, Catholics party sponsored and an array of home-based churches. From this book, home churches are not constitutionally allowed in China. Aikman also censors out that these churches are composed of an assortment of persons believed to be part of the middle class in the society. The author percepts that these modern forms of churches are bound grow at a rate of 20 to 30% of the total Christian population in the future. It is evident that Aikman is trying to generate an argument that Christianity is likely to play a key role in the making of policies in China (Harper, & Eimer, 2010).
Aikman introduces the concept that the Chinese government has not paid attention to accepting the ever-increasing influence by Christianity amongst its population. The book gives a detailed description that no reader can miss the persecution that Christians in China experienced, especially in 1949 when the communist government took authority of the country. There is no doubt that the Chinese government has put to use mechanism such as torture in order to limit their growth. The book also states clearly that when Mao took over the authority of the country, no foreigner could habit in China. The remaining Chinese Christians had to put up with the wrath of the reigning government of the time while...
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