Ancestors, virgins, & friars : Christianity as a local religion in late Imperial China /

"Christianity is often praised as an agent of Chinese modernization or damned as a form of cultural and religious imperialism. In both cases, Christianity's foreignness and the social isolation of converts have dominated this debate. This book aims to uncover another story. In the sixteent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Menegon, Eugenio, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009.
Colección:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 69.
Temas:
Christianity > China.
Christianisme > Chine.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions.
Christianity
Missions
China > Church history.
China > Missions > History.
Chine > Histoire religieuse.
China
Church history
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : "truly unfathomable"?
  • Fuan literati, Jesuits, and Spanish friars
  • Becoming local : conflict with gods and ancestors, 1634-1645
  • The golden age of opportunity, 1645-1723
  • Suppression and persistence, 1723-1840s
  • The Christians of Fuan
  • Christian religious fellowship in Mindong : priests, rituals, and lay institutions
  • Filial piety, ancestral rituals, and salvation
  • Virginity, chastity, and sex
  • Conclusion : ruptures : Fuan after the Opium Wars.

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