作者:
Xi Lian
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連曦 出版社: Yale University Press 副标题: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China 出版年: 2010-2-23 页数: 352 定价: USD 55.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780300123395
This book is the first to address the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a large collection of fresh sources—including contemporaneous accounts, diaries, memoirs, archival material, and interviews—Lian Xi traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in twentieth-century China from a small, beleaguered “missionary” church buffeted by a...
This book is the first to address the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a large collection of fresh sources—including contemporaneous accounts, diaries, memoirs, archival material, and interviews—Lian Xi traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in twentieth-century China from a small, beleaguered “missionary” church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous popular religion energized by nationalism and millenarianism. Lian shows that, with a current membership that rivals that of the Chinese Communist Party, and the ability to galvanize China’s millions into apocalyptic convulsion and messianic exuberance, the popular Christian movement channels the aspirations and the discontent of the masses and will play an important role in shaping the country’s future.
作者简介
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Lian Xi is professor of history at Hanover College and author of The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907–1932. He lives in Louisville, KY.
目录
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Introduction
Chapter One In Search of Chinese Christianity
Chapter Two The Lightning out of the East
Chapter Three The Jesus Family
Chapter Four The Smitten Land
Chapter Five “Elucidating the Way”
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Introduction
Chapter One In Search of Chinese Christianity
Chapter Two The Lightning out of the East
Chapter Three The Jesus Family
Chapter Four The Smitten Land
Chapter Five “Elucidating the Way”
Chapter Six “Flame for God”
Chapter Seven Awaiting Rapture
Chapter Eight The Indigenous Church Movement through War and Revolution
Chapter Nine Cries in the Wilderness
Afterword
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In the early twentieth century, as rural xenophobia gave way to urban nationalism, Western missions continued to encounter periodic outbursts of hostility. [p7]
By the end of the Republican period (1912-1949), mission churches in China reported a total communicant membership of 623,000, which represented a little more than one-tenth of 1 percent of the Chinese population. Nearly a century and a half after Morrison arrived, it was "evident," Fairbank writes, "that the missionaries' long-continued effort, if measured in numbers of converts, had faild." [note27: Fairbank, John King, ed. The Missionary Enterprise in China and America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974, p.1] [p8]
It should be noted that, historically, the naturalization of Christianity in China first took place i... (查看原文)
In August 1834, Robert Morrison died in his middle life, worn out by a quarter of a century of pioneering and consuming labors to bring "the light of science and revelation" to the "Eastern limit of Asia." At the time, those labors were not particularly promising: in some twenty-five years he and a handful of his missionary colleagues had baptized only about ten Chinese. By 1840, when war had broken out between the British and the Chinese and more than three decades after Morrison landed in Canton, the total number of converts in the Middle Kingdom was less than one hundred. [note1: Latourette, History of Christian Missions, pp.213-14, 226.] It was likely in light of such statistics from mission fields that, in the mid-nineteenth century, leading Anglo-American missionary administrators be... (查看原文)
This is a great study on indigenous Chinese Christianity. Lian offers an insider perspective, not merely focuses on Chinese believers' reaction to foreign missionaries, a model that most scholars take...This is a great study on indigenous Chinese Christianity. Lian offers an insider perspective, not merely focuses on Chinese believers' reaction to foreign missionaries, a model that most scholars take. His emphasis on eschatology has its place in the theology of indigenous churches, which closely links to the stress on charismatic religious experience. (展开)
This is a great study on indigenous Chinese Christianity. Lian offers an insider perspective, not merely focuses on Chinese believers' reaction to foreign missionaries, a model that most scholars take...This is a great study on indigenous Chinese Christianity. Lian offers an insider perspective, not merely focuses on Chinese believers' reaction to foreign missionaries, a model that most scholars take. His emphasis on eschatology has its place in the theology of indigenous churches, which closely links to the stress on charismatic religious experience. (展开)
0 有用 He is Good 2018-04-24 03:46:23
This is a great study on indigenous Chinese Christianity. Lian offers an insider perspective, not merely focuses on Chinese believers' reaction to foreign missionaries, a model that most scholars take... This is a great study on indigenous Chinese Christianity. Lian offers an insider perspective, not merely focuses on Chinese believers' reaction to foreign missionaries, a model that most scholars take. His emphasis on eschatology has its place in the theology of indigenous churches, which closely links to the stress on charismatic religious experience. (展开)
0 有用 蠟筆小希 2019-08-12 17:58:22
叙事很好，但popular一词的使用问题比较大。
0 有用 蠟筆小希 2019-08-12 17:58:22
叙事很好，但popular一词的使用问题比较大。
0 有用 He is Good 2018-04-24 03:46:23
This is a great study on indigenous Chinese Christianity. Lian offers an insider perspective, not merely focuses on Chinese believers' reaction to foreign missionaries, a model that most scholars take... This is a great study on indigenous Chinese Christianity. Lian offers an insider perspective, not merely focuses on Chinese believers' reaction to foreign missionaries, a model that most scholars take. His emphasis on eschatology has its place in the theology of indigenous churches, which closely links to the stress on charismatic religious experience. (展开)