Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars : : Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China / / Eugenio Menegon.
"Christianity is often praised as an agent of Chinese modernization or damned as a form of cultural and religious imperialism. In both cases, Christianity's foreignness and the social isolation of converts have dominated this debate. This book aims to uncover another story. In the sixteent...
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| Superior document: | Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 69 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2010. Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "truly unfathomable"?
- Fuan literati, Jesuits, and Spanish friars
- Becoming local : conflict with gods and ancestors, 1634-1645
- The golden age of opportunity, 1645-1723
- Suppression and persistence, 1723-1840s
- The Christians of Fuan
- Christian religious fellowship in Mindong : priests, rituals, and lay institutions
- Filial piety, ancestral rituals, and salvation
- Virginity, chastity, and sex
- Conclusion : ruptures : Fuan after the Opium Wars.