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A voluntary exile : Chinese Christianity and cultural confluence since 1552 /
Western missionaries in China often considered themselves "voluntary exiles" in a distant land, while Chinese considered Christians either the demons of imperialism or the angels of modernization. This collection of new research provides insights into attempts to bridge the social and reli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Lanham, MD :
Lehigh University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Studies in missionaries and Christianity in China.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Western missionaries in China often considered themselves "voluntary exiles" in a distant land, while Chinese considered Christians either the demons of imperialism or the angels of modernization. This collection of new research provides insights into attempts to bridge the social and religious divide that separated China and the West, and serves as an artful and captivating history of how missionaries and native Christians confronted the sometimes violent antagonisms caused by cultural and linguistic difference. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611461497 1611461499 |