Sinicizing Christianity

by Zheng, Yangwen

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Title Statements

Full title :Sinicizing Christianity / edited by Zheng Yangwen.

Summary

Chinese people have been instrumental in indigenizing Christianity. This book 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 376 pages ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004330375, 9004330372
oclc:ocn961004413
LC Classification:BR1285
Dewey Decimal:275.1

Subjects

China Christentum Christianisme -- Chine Christianisme et civilisation -- Histoi… Christianity Christianity -- China Christianity and culture Christianity and culture -- History. --… History Rezeption