Authoritarian Containment: Public Security Bureaus and Protestant House Churches in Urban China,Used

Authoritarian Containment: Public Security Bureaus and Protestant House Churches in Urban China,Used

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In Authoritarian Containment, MarieEve Reny examines why local public security bureaus tolerate unregistered Protestant churches in urban Chinaan officially atheist country where religious practice is controlled by the statewhen the central government considers them illegal. She argues that local states tolerate these churches to contain the underground practice of Protestantism. Containment necessitates a bargain between informal religious organizations and the state. Even though they are not regulated, unregistered churches are allowed to operate conditionally, so long as church leaders keep a low profile, share information as needed with local authorities, and agree that the state will not grant them formal institutional recognition.Reny also considers authoritarian regimes other than China that employ a similar strategy to control informal religious communities. She focuses on two Middle East casesPresident Sadat's control of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1970s Egypt and the Jordanian monarchy's containment of jihadi Salafists after 2006. By reducing the incentives for local religious leaders to politicize and inducing such leaders to willingly provide inside information, governments can avoid the heavy hand of coercion and forceful cooptation.Based on extensive fieldwork, Authoritarian Containment offers insight into the way authoritarian regimes neutralize underground religious leaders and discourage opposition to the state.

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