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Each chapter of this book offers a biography of a religious leader and a detailed discussion of his or her rise to sainthood over the course of China's twentieth century. Throughout, emphasis is on the creative and largely successful strategies deployed in the face of state indifference or hostility.


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  • Author : David Ownby
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Total Pages : 529 pages
  • ISBN : 0190494565
  • PDF File Size : 47,5 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Making Saints in Modern China

Making Saints in Modern China
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 44,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 29 April 2024
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Each chapter of this book offers a biography of a religious leader and a detailed discussion of his or her rise to sainthood over the course of China's twentieth century.

Forgotten Saints

Forgotten Saints
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • File Size : 29,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 29 April 2024
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In 1894 a Muslim mystic named Muḥammad al-Kattānī abandoned his life of asceticism to preach Islamic revival and jihad against the French. Ten years later, he mobilized a Moroccan

Christianity in Modern China

Christianity in Modern China
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • File Size : 24,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 29 April 2024
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This monograph studies a significant episode in Chinese Christianity. Focusing on the origins of Protestantism in South Fujian, it investigates the evolution of the churches which pioneered in indigenization and

Anarchy in the Pure Land

Anarchy in the Pure Land
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 25,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 31 August 2017
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Anarchy in the Pure Land investigates the twentieth-century reinvention of the cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, conceived by the reformer Taixu and promoted by the Chinese Buddhist reform movement.

Chinese Religiosities

Chinese Religiosities
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • File Size : 22,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 04 November 2008
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"Extraordinarily timely and useful. As China emerges as an economic and political world power that seems to have done away with religion, in fact it is witnessing a religious revival.

Intellectual History of Key Concepts

Intellectual History of Key Concepts
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • File Size : 23,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 05 May 2020
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The three-volume project 'Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions' is a timely review of the history of the study of Chinese religions, reconsiders the present state of

The Church as Safe Haven

The Church as Safe Haven
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • File Size : 35,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 23 November 2018
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The Church as Safe Haven conceptualizes the rise of Chinese Christianity as a new civilizational paradigm that encouraged individuals and communities to construct a sacred order for empowerment in modern

Christianity in Contemporary China

Christianity in Contemporary China
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 47,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 07 May 2013
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Christianity is one of the fastest growing religions in China. Despite its long history in China and its significant indigenization or intertwinement with Chinese society and culture, Christianity continues to

State of the Field and Disciplinary Approaches

State of the Field and Disciplinary Approaches
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • File Size : 23,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 05 August 2019
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The three-volume project 'Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions' presents a history of the study of Chinese religions. It evaluates the current state of scholarship, discusses a