Sinicizing Christianity / edited by Zheng Yangwen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zheng, Yangwen, editor.

Series:

Studies in Christian mission ; Volume 49.

Studies in Christian Mission, 0924-9389 ; Volume 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--China.

Christianity.

Christianity and culture--China--History.

Christianity and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages) : color illustrations, photographs.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

Chinese people have been instrumental in indigenizing Christianity. Sinizing Christianity examines Christianity's transplantation to and transformation in China by focusing on three key elements: Chinese agents of introduction; Chinese redefinition of Christianity for the local context; and Chinese institutions and practices that emerged and enabled indigenisation. As a matter of fact, Christianity is not an exception, but just one of many foreign ideas and religions, which China has absorbed since the formation of the Middle Kingdom, Buddhism and Islam are great examples. Few scholars of China have analysed and synthesised the process to determine whether there is a pattern to the ways in which Chinese people have redefined foreign imports for local use and what insight Christianity has to offer. Contributors are: Robert Entenmann, Christopher Sneller, Yuqin Huang, Wai Luen Kwok, Thomas Harvey, Monica Romano, Thomas Coomans, Chris White, Dennis Ng, Ruiwen Chen and Richard Madsen.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction. Christianity: Towards a Theory of Sinicization / Yangwen Zheng

A Mission Without Missionaries: Chinese Catholic Clergy in Sichuan, 1746–1756 / Robert Entenmann

The Role of Union Theological Seminary (New York) in Sinicizing Christianity / Christopher D. Sneller

“Taking Jesus Back to China”: New Gospel Agents in Shanghai / Yuqin Huang

Christ-human and Jia Yuming’s Doctrine of Sanctification / Wai Luen Kwok

Sermon, Story, and Song in the Inculturation of Christianity in China / Thomas Alan Harvey

Translating and Transplanting the Word of God in Chinese / Monica Romano

The “Sino-Christian Style”: A Major Tool for Architectural Indigenization / Thomas Coomans

Sacred Dwellings: Protestant Ancestral Halls and Homes in Southern Fujian / Chris White

The Sinicization of Sacred Music: A Study of T. C. Chao / Dennis T.W. Ng

Sinicizing Christian Music at Shanghai Community Church / Ruiwen Chen

Epilogue. Multiple Sinicizations of Multiple Christianities / Richard Madsen

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-33038-0

OCLC:

968246503

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004330382 DOI