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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821298103321

Titolo

A voluntary exile : Chinese Christianity and cultural confluence since 1552 / / edited by Anthony E. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lehigh University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61146-149-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Studies in missionaries and Christianity in China

Altri autori (Persone)

ClarkAnthony E

Disciplina

266.00951

Soggetti

Missions - China - History

Christianity and culture - China

China Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: A Glorious Failure; Chapter Two: Jesuit Formation and Its Influence on the Methods of Matteo Ricci; Chapter Three: The Lefebvre Incident of 1754; Chapter Four: Restoring the Ancient Faith; Chapter Five: Mandarins and Martyrs of Taiyuan, Shanxi, in Late-Imperial China; Chapter Six: Christianity for a Confucian Youth; Chapter Seven: Catholic and Chinese Folk Religion during the Republican Era in the Region of Taiyuan, Shanxi; Chapter Eight: Church-State Accommodation in China's "Harmonious Society"; Works Cited

IndexAbout the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Western missionaries in China often considered themselves "voluntary exiles" in a distant land, while Chinese considered Christians either the demons of imperialism or the angels of modernization. This collection of new research provides insights into attempts to bridge the social and religious divide that separated China and the West, and serves as an artful and captivating history of how missionaries and native Christians confronted the sometimes violent antagonisms caused by cultural and linguistic difference.