Christianity In Modern China

Author : Li Ma
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793631572

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Christian Women and Modern China by Li Ma Pdf

Christian Women and Modern China presents a social history of women pioneers in Chinese Protestantism from the 1880s to the 2010s. The author interrupts a hegemonic framework of historical narratives by exploring formal institutions and rules as well as social networks and social norms that shape the lived experiences of women. This book achieves a more nuanced understanding about the interplays of Christianity, gender, power and modern Chinese history. It reintroduces Chinese Christian women pioneers not only to women’s history and the history of Chinese Christianity, but also to the history of global Christian mission and the global history of many modern professions, such as medicine, education, literature, music, charity, journalism, and literature.

Author : Lian, Xi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300123395

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Redeemed by Fire by Lian, Xi Pdf

This text addresses the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a collection of sources, the author traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in the 20th-century China from a small 'missionary' church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous opular religion energized by nationalism.

Author : David Cheung
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004131434

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Christianity in Modern China by David Cheung Pdf

This monograph studies a significant episode in Chinese Christianity. Focusing on the origins of Protestantism in South Fujian, it investigates the evolution of the churches which pioneered in indigenization and ecclesiastical union in China during the 19th century.

Author : Daniel H. Bays
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0804736510

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Christianity in China by Daniel H. Bays Pdf

This pathbreaking volume will force a reassessment of many common assumptions about the relationship between Christianity and modern China. The overall thrust of the twenty essays is that despite the conflicts and tension that often have characterized relations between Christianity and China, in fact Christianity has been, for the past two centuries or more, putting down roots within Chinese society, and it is still in the process of doing so. Thus Christianity is here interpreted not just as a Western religion that imposed itself on China, but one that was becoming a Chinese religion, as Buddhism did centuries ago. Eschewing the usual focus on foreign missionaries, as is customary, this research effort is China-centered, drawing on Chinese sources, including government and organizational documents, private papers, and interviews. The essays are organized into four major sections: Christianity’s role in Qing society, including local conflicts (6 essays); ethnicity (3 essays); women (5 essays); and indigenization of the Christian effort (6 essays). The editor has provided sectional introductions to highlight the major themes in each section, as well as a general Introduction.

Author : Francis Khek Gee Lim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136204999

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Christianity in Contemporary China by Francis Khek Gee Lim Pdf

Christianity is one of the fastest growing religions in China. Despite its long history in China and its significant indigenization or intertwinement with Chinese society and culture, Christianity continues to generate suspicion among political elites and intense debates among broader communities within China. This unique book applies socio-cultural methods in the study of contemporary Christianity. Through a wide range of empirical analyses of the complex and highly diverse experience of Christianity in contemporary China, it examines the fraught processes by which various forms and practices of Christianity interact with the Chinese social, political and cultural spheres. Contributions by top scholars in the field are structured in the following sections: Enchantment, Nation and History, Civil Society, and Negotiating Boundaries. This book offers a major contribution to the field and provides a timely, wide-ranging assessment of Christianity in Contemporary China.

Author : Vincent Goossaert,David A. Palmer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226304182

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The Religious Question in Modern China by Vincent Goossaert,David A. Palmer Pdf

Recent events—from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe—vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without attending closely to the question of religion. The Religious Question in Modern China highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political regimes, and cultural movements to explore how religion has challenged and responded to secular Chinese modernity, from 1898 to the present. Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer piece together the puzzle of religion in China not by looking separately at different religions in different contexts, but by writing a unified story of how religion has shaped, and in turn been shaped by, modern Chinese society. From Chinese medicine and the martial arts to communal temple cults and revivalist redemptive societies, the authors demonstrate that from the nineteenth century onward, as the Chinese state shifted, the religious landscape consistently resurfaced in a bewildering variety of old and new forms. The Religious Question in Modern China integrates historical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives in a comprehensive overview of China’s religious history that is certain to become an indispensible reference for specialists and students alike.

Author : Joy Kooi-Chin Tong
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783080878

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Overseas Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Modern China by Joy Kooi-Chin Tong Pdf

Inspired by Max Weber’s thesis on the Protestant ethic, ‘Overseas Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Modern China’ sets out to understand the role and influence of Christianity on Overseas Chinese businesspeople working in contemporary China. Through its in-depth interviews and participant observations (involving 60 Overseas Chinese entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and the United States), the text discusses how Christianity has come to fulfill an increasingly visible and dynamic function in the country, most notably as a new source of business morality.

Author : Cindy Yik-yi Chu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789811661822

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The Catholic Church, The Bible, and Evangelization in China by Cindy Yik-yi Chu Pdf

This edited volume starts from the perspectives of Beijing in how it sees that religion should serve the interests of the state. From China’s viewpoint, religion should act as a stabilizing force of society, or else the Christian Churches will lose their reason for existence. This might be incomprehensible to Western Christians, who believe in the freedom of religion and their right to embrace their faith. This collection of articles represents the concerted efforts of Chinese, Italians, and an American—who live in China, Europe, and the United States and belong to different disciplines, such as History, Religious Studies, and Language Studies—to promote a better understanding of the Catholic Church in the world and in China.

Author : Yoshiko Ashiwa,David L. Wank
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804758413

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Making Religion, Making the State by Yoshiko Ashiwa,David L. Wank Pdf

This volume combines the perspective of religion as a constructed category of modernity with the analytic focus and empirical grounding of institutional social science to develop a new approach to the study of state and religion in modern and contemporary China.

Author : David Aikman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781596986527

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Jesus in Beijing by David Aikman Pdf

This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant, its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity, and what this change means to the global balance of power.

Author : Edmond Tang,Jean-Paul Wiest
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625640864

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The Catholic Church in Modern China by Edmond Tang,Jean-Paul Wiest Pdf

In spite of difficulties posed by a hostile socialist government, the Catholic Church in China has shown remarkable perseverance and growth since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1979. The essays contained in The Catholic Church in Modern China inform readers of the major issues facing the Catholic Church in China today. Their insights should be welcomed by everyone from the Catholic layperson contemplating a trip to China to scholars and specialists in China and religious studies.

Author : Cindy Yik-yi Chu,Paul P. Mariani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789811516795

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People, Communities, and the Catholic Church in China by Cindy Yik-yi Chu,Paul P. Mariani Pdf

This book explores the Chinese Catholic Church as a whole as well as focusing on particular aspects of its activities, including diplomacy, politics, leadership, pilgrimage, youths, and non-Chinese Catholics in China. It discusses Sino-Vatican relations and the rationale behind the decisions taken by Pope Francis with regard to the appointment of bishops in China. The book also examines important changes and personalities in the Chinese Church, the Catholic organizations, and the Catholic communities in the Church, offering a key read for researchers and graduate students studying the Chinese Catholic Church, the Church in Asia, and religion in contemporary China.

Author : David Ownby,Vincent Goossaert,Ji Zhe,Chi Che
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190494568

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Making Saints in Modern China by David Ownby,Vincent Goossaert,Ji Zhe,Chi Che Pdf

Each chapter of this book offers a biography of a religious leader and a detailed discussion of his or her rise to sainthood over the course of China's twentieth century. Throughout, emphasis is on the creative and largely successful strategies deployed in the face of state indifference or hostility.

Author : Philip L. Wickeri
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608333660

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Reconstructing Christianity in China by Philip L. Wickeri Pdf

Author : Daniel H. Bays
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781444342840

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A New History of Christianity in China by Daniel H. Bays Pdf

A New History of Christianity in China, written by one of the world's the leading writers on Christianity in China, looks at Christianity's long history in China, its extraordinarily rapid rise in the last half of the twentieth century, and charts its future direction. Provides the first comprehensive history of Christianity in China, an important, understudied area in both Asian studies and religious history Traces the transformation of Christianity from an imported, Western religion to a thoroughly Chinese religion Contextualizes the growth of Christianity in China within national and local politics Offers a portrait of the complex religious scene in China today Contrasts China with other non-Western societies where Christianity is surging