Transnational Religious Exchange of Chinese Protestant Christians and Its Socio-Cultural Impacts: The Case of The Chinese Coordination Centre of World Evangelism, 1974-2021

The present research aims at investigating the characteristics of transnational exchanges of Chinese Christians and their socio-cultural impacts through the history of The Chinese Coordination Centre of World Evangelism (CCCOWE). CCCOWE is arguably the first transnational and interdenominational Chinese indigenized Protestant Christian organization. It has 75 district committees all over the world and is the most developed transnational Chinese Protestant Christian network. CCCOWE makes impacts on cultural-religious life of overseas Chinese Christian communities. CCCOWE as a religious movement alleviates theological and ancestral local divisions of overseas Chinese Christian communities. It also initiates Christian social participation in moral and environmental issues that many Chinese churches would like to avoid. With its activities and ministries, it becomes another religious power centre that exerts influence other than the traditional denominations and local church councils. The ministries of CCCOWE articulates and contributes additional complexity to the concept of Chinese identity.