China's Christianity: From Missionary to Indigenous Church

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BRILL, Apr 24, 2017 - Religion - 316 pages
Among the assumptions interrogated in this volume, edited by Anthony E. Clark, is if Christianity should most accurately be identified as “Chinese” when it displays vestiges of Chinese cultural aesthetics, or whether Chinese Christianity is more indigenous when it is allowed to form its own theological framework. In other words, can theological uniqueness also function as a legitimate Chinese Christian cultural expression in the formation of its own ecclesial identity? Also central to what is explored in this book is how missionary influences, consciously or unconsciously, introduced seeds of independence into the cultural ethos of China’s Christian community. Chinese girls who pushed “the limits of proper behaviour,” for example, added to the larger sense of confidence as China’s Christians began to resist the model of Christianity they had inherited from foreign missionaries.

Contributors are: Robert E. Carbonneau, CP, Christie Chui-Shan Chow, Amanda C. R. Clark, Lydia Gerber, Joseph W. Ho, Joseph Tse-hei Lee, Audrey Seah, Jean-Paul Wiest, and Xiaoxin Wu.
 

Contents

Introduction Chinas Christianity and the Ideal of a Universal Church
1
The AntiChristian Movement in Shantou during the Eastern Expedition 1925
21
American Presbyterian Photography Filmmaking and Chinese Christianity in Republican China
52
A Struggle for Indigenization Amidst the Chinese Rites Controversy
86
French Catholicism and Chinese Conversion
121
Women Students in and beyond the Weimar Mission Schools in Qingdao 19051914
141
Missionary Zeal and Shared Experience of Suffering and Compassion with Chinese Catholics in Wartime and Late TwentiethCentury China
175
Charles McCarthy SJ and Chinas Jesuit Mission in Transition
199
Toward a Chinese Denominational Practice
219
As Lived by Chinese Christians
247
The Study of Christianity in China by a New Generation of Chinese Scholars
267
Index
293
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