Overview
- Presents a revealing regional study of the localization of Christianity in modern China
- Highlights the resilience of Chinese Christianity and the ability of Chinese churches to adapt to political upheavals and marketization in recent decades
- Advances our understanding of the transformation of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the past to the present
Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present. This important regional study is particularly revealing due to the unbroken history of Sino-Christian interactions in Xiamen and the extensive ties that its churches have maintained with global missions and overseas Chinese Christians. Its authors draw upon a wide range of foreign missionary and Chinese official archives, local Xiamen church publications, and fieldwork data to historicize the Protestant experience in the region. Further, the local Christians’ stories demonstrate a form of sociocultural, religious and political imagination that puts into question the Euro-American model of Christendom and the Chinese Communist-controlled Three-Self Patriotic Movement. It addresses the localization of Christianity, the reinvention of local Chinese Protestant identity and heritage, and the Protestants’ engagement with the society at large. The empirical findings and analytical insights of this collection will appeal to scholars of religion, sociology and Chinese history.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Protestantism in Xiamen
Book Subtitle: Then and Now
Editors: Chris White
Series Title: Global Diversities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89471-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89470-6Published: 16 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07779-2Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89471-3Published: 02 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-2580
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 233
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Religion and Society, History of China, Asian Culture, Politics and Religion, History of Religion