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...
This pathbreaking volume will force a reassessment of many common assumptions about the relationship between Christianity and modern China. The overal...
This volume is the first to examine at length and in detail the impact of the missionary experience on American cultural, political, and religious history.
This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways. Missions provided many Americans with their first significant exposure to non-Western...
This volume is the first to examine at length and in detail the impact of the missionary experience on American cultural, political, and religio...
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...
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 lon...