In Sacred Webs, Chris White demonstrates how Chinese Protestants in Minnan, or the southern half of Fujian Province, fractured social ties and constructed and utilized new networks through churches, which served as nodes linking individuals into larger Protestant communities.

Chris White, Ph.D. (2011), Xiamen University, MA (2006), University of Pittsburgh, is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.