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Author: Nicole Constable Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520083844 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 266
Book Description
How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile their religious and ethnic identities? Established at the turn of the century by Hakka Christians seeking to escape hardship and discrimination in China, Shung Him Tong was built as an "ideal" Chinese and Christian village. Despite accusations to the contrary, these villagers maintain that while they are Christian, they are still Chinese. Photos. Maps.
Author: Nicole Constable Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520083844 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 266
Book Description
How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile their religious and ethnic identities? Established at the turn of the century by Hakka Christians seeking to escape hardship and discrimination in China, Shung Him Tong was built as an "ideal" Chinese and Christian village. Despite accusations to the contrary, these villagers maintain that while they are Christian, they are still Chinese. Photos. Maps.
Author: Nicole Constable Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520338677 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile the contradictions between their religious and ethnic identities? This ethnographic study explores the construction and changing meanings of ethnic identity in Hong Kong. Established at the turn of the century by Hakka Christians who sought to escape hardships and discrimination in China, Shung Him Tong was constructed as an "ideal" Chinese and Christian village. The Hakka Christians translate "traditional" Chinese beliefs—such as ancestral worship and death rituals—that are incompatible with their Christian ideals into secular form, providing a crucial link with the past and with a Chinese identity. Despite accusations to the contrary, these villagers maintain that while they are Christian, they are still Chinese. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Author: William Lane Craig Publisher: Crossway ISBN: 1433501155 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 418
Book Description
This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.
Author: Erwin Raphael McManus Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM ISBN: 1418570478 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 269
Book Description
The search of your life is the search for your life. What you are holding right now is an exploration of the human spirit; a journey into our deepest longings, our desires, our needs, our cravings, our souls. Our need for intimacy, meaning, and destiny point to the existence of God and our need to connect with Him. This book will deeply stir you to consider and chase after the spiritual implications of your souls' deepest longings.
Author: Ian Johnson Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 1101870052 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 480
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist: a revelatory portrait of religion in China today, its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. Following a century of violent antireligious campaigns, China is now awash with new temples, churches, and mosques as well as cults, sects, and politicians trying to harness religion for their own ends. Driving this explosion of faith is uncertainty over what it means to be Chinese, and how to live an ethical life in a country that discarded traditional morality a century ago and is still searching for new guideposts. Ian Johnson lived for extended periods with underground church members, rural Daoists, and Buddhist pilgrims. He has distilled these experiences into a cycle of festivals, births, deaths, detentions, and struggle a great awakening of faith that is shaping the soul of the world s newest superpower. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout).
Author: Jack Canfield Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1453279083 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
Christian women who make God and family a priority in their life will love Chicken Soup for the Christian Woman's Soul, an affirming collection of stories that share the miracles that are possible when their hearts are open to God.
Author: Nicolas Standaert Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004114300 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 1092
Book Description
The second volume on Christianity in China covers the period from 1800 to the present day, dealing with the complexities of both Catholic and Protestant aspects.
Author: Koen De Ridder Publisher: Leuven University Press ISBN: 9789058671028 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 204
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This volume intends to tackle two problems. The first is the historical framework of imperialism - until now widely applied by Western and Chinese scholars as an approach to the Christian evangelization movement in China. The theological aspect of the missionary action is seldom taken into account, nor is religion treated as an authentic human experience. In this volume two authors try to place the position of the Christian mission in its broader context. Scott Somers reflects on the changing image of the Japanese occupation in Taiwan, based on protestant missionary sources; Koen De Ridder discusses the early diplomatic contacts between China and Belgium and the position of the Belgian missionaries. A second problem dealt with is that of the native Christians. While Jessie Lutz attempts to sketch a profile of the Chinese Protestant evangelizers, Jean-Paul Wiest focuses his attention on the Roman Catholics among the Chinese Hakka minority. Gary Tiedemann explains the material, spiritual and political incentives for conversion among the inhabitants of North China, paying special attention to the socio-political profile of the converts. In the contribution of Ann Heylen we return to Taiwan, where we are offered a better understanding of the Protestant contribution to the study of the Min language. Finally, Karel Steenbrink describes the changing religious affiliation of assimilated Chinese in Indonesia during the period 1900-1942.
Author: Jessie Gregory Lutz Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317469224 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 312
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This work focuses on the 19th-century mission conducted by Chinese evangelists among the Hakka, an ethnic minority in south China. The principal part of the text comprises the autobiographies of eight pioneer missionaries who offer insight into village life and customs of the Hakka people.
Author: Fenggang Yang Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 9780271042527 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 252
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Christianity has become the most practiced religion among the Chinese in America, but very little solid research exists on Chinese Christians and their churches. This book is the first to explore the subject from the inside, revealing how Chinese Christians construct and reconstruct their identity--as Christians, Americans, and Chinese--in local congregations amid the radical pluralism of the late twentieth century. Today there are more than one thousand Chinese churches in the United States, most of them Protestant evangelical congregations, bringing together diasporic Chinese from diverse origins--Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and Southeast Asian countries. Fenggang Yang finds that despite the many tensions and conflicts that exist within these congregations, most individuals find ways to creatively integrate their evangelical Christian beliefs with traditional Chinese (most Confucian) values. The church becomes a place where they can selectively assimilate into American society while simultaneously preserving Chinese values and culture. Yang brings to this study unique experience as both participant and observer. Born in mainland China, he is a sociologist who converted to Christianity after coming to the United States. The heart of this book is an ethnographic study of a representative Chinese church, located in Washington, D. C., where he became a member. Throughout the book, Yang draws upon interviews with members of this congregation while making comparisons with other churches throughout the United States. Chinese Christians in America is an important addition to the literature on the experience of "new" immigrant communities.
Author: Nicole Constable
Author: Nicole Constable
Author: Nicole Constable
Author: William Lane Craig
Author: Erwin Raphael McManus
Author: Ian Johnson
Author: Jack Canfield
Author: Nicolas Standaert
Author: Koen De Ridder
Author: Jessie Gregory Lutz
Author: Fenggang Yang