The Church as safe haven : Christian governance in China /

The Church as safe haven : Christian governance in China /

The Church as Safe Haven conceptualizes the rise of Chinese Christianity as a new civilizational paradigm that encouraged individuals and communities to construct a sacred order for empowerment in modern China. Once Christianity enrooted itself in Chinese society as an indigenous religion, local con...

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Other Authors: Laamann, Lars Peter (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Studies in Christian Mission 55.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, Supplement 2019, ISBN: 9789004390942.

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Christianity > China.

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Call Number: BR1285

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Preface: In Permanent Gratitude to R.G. Tiedemann
  • Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Christianity and Community Governance in Modern China /
  • Joseph Tse-Hei Lee and Lars Peter Laamann
  • Spirit / 靈: Filling a Cosmological Void
  • Torch-Bearers of Modernity? Western Missionaries, Demonism and Exorcism in Modern China (1860s-1930s) /
  • Lars Peter Laamann
  • Signs of Power: Christians' Search for Certainty in Troubled Times (1906-1919) /
  • Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye
  • Buddhist-Christian Encounters: Robert Morrison and the Haichuang Buddhist Temple in Nineteenth-Century Canton /
  • Man-Shun Yeung
  • Seeking Convergence: Richard Wilhelm, Wu Leichuan, and their Quest for a Shared Confucian-Christian Vision /
  • Lydia Gerber
  • Intellect / 智: Christianizing Chinese Hearts and Minds
  • Mission Education and New Opportunities: American Presbyterian Schools in Shandong Province /
  • John R. Stanley
  • Trained to Care: The Institutionalization of Nursing in Hong Kong (1887-1900) /
  • David Jong Hyuk Kang
  • Patriotic Cooperation: Why was the Church-Run Border Service Department Established in Wartime China? /
  • Diana Junio
  • Building a National Bible Society: The China Bible House and the Indigenization of Bible Work /
  • George Kam Wah Mak
  • Body / 體: Christian Activism in Local Society
  • Faith and Charity: Christian Disaster Management in 1920s Chaozhou /
  • Joseph Tse-Hei Lee
  • Catholic Mission Stations in Northern China: Centers of Stability and Protection in Troubled Times /
  • Rolf Gerhard Tiedemann
  • Revive, Survive, and Divide: Rebuilding Seventh-Day Adventism in Wenzhou /
  • Christie Chui-Shan Chow
  • Back Matter
  • Index.