02792nam 2200577 450 991082129810332120200520144314.01-61146-149-9(CKB)2670000000494223(EBL)1577413(SSID)ssj0001061849(PQKBManifestationID)12449975(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001061849(PQKBWorkID)11111151(PQKB)10746222(MiAaPQ)EBC1577413(Au-PeEL)EBL1577413(CaPaEBR)ebr10815273(CaONFJC)MIL550951(OCoLC)865334293(EXLCZ)99267000000049422320131219d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA voluntary exile Chinese Christianity and cultural confluence since 1552 /edited by Anthony E. ClarkLanham, Maryland :Lehigh University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (238 p.)Studies in missionaries and Christianity in ChinaIncludes index.1-61146-148-0 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 CitedIndexAbout the ContributorsWestern 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. MissionsChinaHistoryChristianity and cultureChinaChinaChurch historyMissionsHistory.Christianity and culture266.00951Clark Anthony E884770MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821298103321A voluntary exile4081123UNINA