Sinicizing Christianity

Author(s)

• Zheng, Yangwen

Bibliographic Information

Sinicizing Christianity

edited by Zheng Yangwen

（Studies in Christian mission, v. 49）

Brill, c2017

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-367) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Chinese people have been instrumental in indigenizing Christianity. Sinizing Christianity examines Christianity's transplantation to and transformation in China by focusing on three key elements: Chinese agents of introduction; Chinese redefinition of Christianity for the local context; and Chinese institutions and practices that emerged and enabled indigenisation. As a matter of fact, Christianity is not an exception, but just one of many foreign ideas and religions, which China has absorbed since the formation of the Middle Kingdom, Buddhism and Islam are great examples. Few scholars of China have analysed and synthesised the process to determine whether there is a pattern to the ways in which Chinese people have redefined foreign imports for local use and what insight Christianity has to offer. Contributors are: Robert Entenmann, Christopher Sneller, Yuqin Huang, Wai Luen Kwok, Thomas Harvey, Monica Romano, Thomas Coomans, Chris White, Dennis Ng, Ruiwen Chen and Richard Madsen.

Table of Contents

Contents List of images Acknowledgement Introduction - Christianity: Towards a Theory of Sinicization Part I - Agents of Introduction and Enculturation Chapter 1: A Mission Without Missionaries: Chinese Catholics Clergy in Sichuan, 1746-1756 Robert Entenmann Chapter 2: The Role of Union Theological Seminary (New York) in Sinicizing Christianity Christopher D. Sneller Chapter 3: "Taking Jesus Back to China": New Gospel Agents in Shanghai Yuqin Huang Part II - Redefining Christianity for the Chinese Context Chapter 4: Christ-human and Jia Yuming's doctrine of sanctification Wai Luen Kwok Chapter 5: Sermon, Story, and Song in the Inculturation of Christianity in China Thomas Alan Harvey Chapter 6: Translating and Transplanting the Word of God in Chinese Monica Romano Part III - Building and Singing the Kingdom of God Chapter 7: The "Sino-Christian Style": a Major Tool for Architectural Indigenisation Thomas Coomans Chapter 8: Sacred Dwellings: Protestant Ancestral Halls and Homes in Southern Fujian Chris White Chapter 9: The Sinicization of Sacred Music: T. C. Chao Dennis T.W. Ng Chapter 10: Sinicising Christian Music at Shanghai Community Church Chen Ruiwen Epilogue - Multiple Sinicizations of Multiple Christianities Richard Madsen Author Biography Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BB23625530
• ISBN:
  • 9789004330375
• LCCN: 2016051517
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 376 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BR1285
  • DC23 : 275.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Christianity -- China
  • LCSH : Christianity and culture -- China -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA12467725