Chinese people have been instrumental in indigenizing Christianity. Sinizing Christianityexamines 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.
Contributors are: Robert Entenmann, Christopher Sneller, Yuqin Huang, Wai Luen Kwok, Thomas Harvey, Monica Romano, Thomas Coomans, Chris White, Dennis Ng, Ruiwen Chen and Richard Madsen.
Biographical note
Readership
Table of contents
List of images
Acknowledgement
Introduction - Christianity: Towards a Theory of Sinicization
Part I - Agents of Introduction and Enculturation
Chapter 1: A Mission Without Missionaries: Chinese Catholics Clergy in Sichuan, 1746-1756
Robert Entenmann
Chapter 2: The Role of Union Theological Seminary (New York) in Sinicizing Christianity
Christopher D. Sneller
Chapter 3: “Taking Jesus Back to China”: New Gospel Agents in Shanghai
Yuqin Huang
Part II - Redefining Christianity for the Chinese Context
Chapter 4: Christ-human and Jia Yuming’s doctrine of sanctification
Wai Luen Kwok
Chapter 5: Sermon, Story, and Song in the Inculturation of Christianity in China
Thomas Alan Harvey
Chapter 6: Translating and Transplanting the Word of God in Chinese
Monica Romano
Part III - Building and Singing the Kingdom of God
Chapter 7: The “Sino-Christian Style”: a Major Tool for Architectural Indigenisation
Thomas Coomans
Chapter 8: Sacred Dwellings: Protestant Ancestral Halls and Homes in Southern Fujian
Chris White
Chapter 9: The Sinicization of Sacred Music: T. C. Chao
Dennis T.W. Ng
Chapter 10: Sinicising Christian Music at Shanghai Community Church
Chen Ruiwen
Epilogue - Multiple Sinicizations of Multiple Christianities
Richard Madsen
Author Biography
Bibliography
Index
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