Christianity in China

Author: Daniel H. Bays
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804736510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526

Book Description
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: Christianitys 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.

Christians in China

Author: Jean Charbonnier
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 0898709164
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 606

Book Description
Chronicles the history of Christianity in China throughout the centuries, from the arrival of Christian missionaries during the seventh century to efforts to connect Chinese followers with European Catholics in 2000.

A New History of Christianity in China

Author: Daniel H. Bays
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444342843
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
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

A New History of Christianity in China

Author: Daniel H. Bays
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782687559
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
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.

Redeemed by Fire

Author: Lian, Xi
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300123396
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 351

Book Description
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.

John Song

Author: Research Assistant Professor of Mission Daryl R Ireland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781481312707
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description

A History of Christian Missions in China

Author: Kenneth Scott Latourette
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781593337865
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 948

Book Description
Starting with the religious background of China, Latourette probes why Christianity appealed to the Chinese and then launches into a detailed history of its development. He considers how Christianity began before and coped under the Mongol Dynasty and then the incursion of the Roman Catholic Missions. Briefly considering the Russian Orthodox interest in Chinese missions, he moves on to what is clearly his main concern in the Protestant influx in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Considering the main events of China's history in relation to the European powers of the day, he considers how Christianity fared into the early nineteenth century.

Handbook of Christianity in China

Author: Nicolas Standaert
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004114300
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1092

Book Description
The second volume on Christianity in China covers the period from 1800 to the present day, dealing with the complexities of both Catholic and Protestant aspects.

Shanghai Faithful

Author: Jennifer Lin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 144225694X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333

Book Description
Within the next decade, China could be home to more Christians than any country in the world. Through the 150-year saga of a single family, this book vividly dramatizes the remarkable religious evolution of the world’s most populous nation. Shanghai Faithful is both a touching family memoir and a chronicle of the astonishing spread of Christianity in China. Five generations of the Lin family—buffeted by history’s crosscurrents and personal strife—bring to life an epoch that is still unfolding. A compelling cast—a poor fisherman, a doctor who treated opium addicts, an Ivy League–educated priest, and the charismatic preacher Watchman Nee—sets the bookin motion. Veteran journalist Jennifer Lin takes readers from remote nineteenth-century mission outposts to the thriving house churches and cathedrals of today’s China. The Lin family—and the book’s central figure, the Reverend Lin Pu-chi—offer witness to China’s tumultuous past, up to and beyond the betrayals and madness of the Cultural Revolution, when the family’s resolute faith led to years of suffering. Forgiveness and redemption bring the story full circle. With its sweep of history and the intimacy of long-hidden family stories, Shanghai Faithful offers a fresh look at Christianity in China—past, present, and future.

Jesus in Beijing

Author: David Aikman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1596986522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459

Book Description
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.