1. To "Become Chinese": Nestorian Christians of the T'ang (Tang)--Mongol missions of the 13th and 14th centuries--Syncretism and assimilation--European knowledge of Chinese religion before the Jesuits--Jesuit missionary experience--Alessandro Valignano and the accomodation method.
2. Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism: Michele Ruggieri and the establishment of the mission--Matteo Ricci and the discovery of Confucianism--Ricci's interpretation of Confucianism--Matteo Ricci and the Chinese Rites question--Ricci and Confucianism: syncretism, accomodation, encounter?
3. Confucian interpretation of the Jesuits: Late Ming Confucianism--Christian Confucians--the Buddhist reaction--the Confucian reaction--Alleged Jesuit influence on late Ming-early Ch'ing thought.
4. A point of fact: the debate over terms and rites (1610-1688): Jesuit debate over terms--Arrival of the friars and the beginning of the debate over Chinese Rites--Legitimate prejudices?--Lull in the storm--Confucius Sinarum Philosophus.
5. Son of Heaven and Vicar of Christ: the Chinese Rites Controversy (1688-1742): Ching t'ien (Jing Tian 敬天) "Adore Heaven"--Louis Le Comte vs. the Sorbonne--Papal legates--Aftermath of the Rites.
6. Moses or China? the Jesuit Figurists: The Sources of Figurism--Figurists and their critics--Joachim Bouvet and the prophecies of the I-ching (Yijing 易經)--Jean-François Foucquet and the symbolism of the Chinese classics--Joseph de Prémare and the theory of "vestiges"
7. The Jesuits and the beginning of scientific sinology: Jean Baptiste du Halde--Antoine Gaubil--Alexandre de la Charme and the Hsing-li chen-ch'uan (Xingli zhenquan 性理真詮)--Memoires concernant l'histoire...etc. des chinois.

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Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be considered as embodied expressions of the quest for existential meaning. For practitioners, the achievement of existential meaning requires the inclusion, implication and mediation of the ancestors. When gestures in ancestor rites are analysed from this perspective it is possible to appreciate their essence as constitutive of 'ancestor religion'. This book uses an inquisitive method that investigates the discrepancies between foreign and local explanations, and proposes another hermeneutic framework for ancestor related praxes.--OCLC note.

Rites Controversy: An Illustration of Power Relations in InterpretationConclusion; Chapter 4: "Our" Perspective: The Indigenous Explanation of Ancestor Rites; Introduction; Church- or Christian-Related Native Responses; Chinese Catholic Converts' Contribution to the Rites Controversy; The Sacrifices Were Not Religious; A Lexicology; Apologetics; The Historical Impact of Chinese Converts' Writings; 祭天敬祖: A Chinese Catholic Response to a Crucial Point in the Rites Controversy; Protestant Responses to Ancestor Rites; Awareness of the Problem; Historical Development.

Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Are Ancestors a Problem?; Chapter 2: The Hermeneutic Challenge of Ancestor- Related Practices; Introduction; Conceptual Issues; Hermeneutics; Why Hermeneutics?; Ad hoc or Implicit Hermeneutics; Nicolas Standaert's Hermeneutics of Cultural Encounters; Ancestors; Plural Naming of the Celebrated Remembrance of the Dead; Ancestor Rites; Ancestor Ritual; Ancestor Worship: Ancestor Cult or Ancestor Veneration?; Traditional Religion? Why Not Ancestor Religion ... ; Built-In Structure of Ancestor Rites; Three Interpretative Ingredients.

Interpretation of Ancestor Rituals and Tradition Interpretation and Power; Salvation/Wholeness/Integrity; Conclusion; Chapter 3: The Conflict of Interpretation of Chinese Ancestor Rites; Introduction; Stages of Encounter between Christianity and Chinese Culture; Early Chinese Christianity and the Problem of Ancestor Rites; Ancestor Rites in the Stories of Christian Visitors to the Yuan Dynasty; Matteo Ricci's Perception and Appraisal of Ancestor Rites; Information Related to Ancestor Rites; The Methodological Ground of Ricci's Appraisal of Ancestor Rites.

Concluding Summary of Ricci's Appraisal of Ancestor Rites: One of the Points of the Chinese Rites Controversy; Sinology and the Quest for the Meaning of Chinese Ancestor Rites; An Interpretation in View of Mission; Ancestor Rites: An Attraction for Human Sciences; A Practical Answer to a Theoretical Problem; The Methodological Contribution; The Protestants' Assessment of and Responses to Ancestor Rites; Power Relations and the Appraisal of Ancestor Rites; Political and Institutional Power Relations; Conceptual and Ideological Conditioning.

A Three-Step Pattern in Indigenized Christian Responses-The Three-Step Structure at Work; Concluding Observations on the Protestant Indigenous Response; The Academic Environment; The Core of Chinese Religion (s); Chinese Mainland Scholars' Responses to Foreign Assessments of Ancestor Rituals; Direct Responses; Indirect Responses; A Critical Enrichment of Foreign Interpretations; Concluding Summary of Chinese Indigenous Responses; Chapter 5: Existential Practical Hermeneutics of Ancestor Religion; Introduction; Why Practical or Existential Hermeneutics?--[See OCLC #1020790434]

Christianity in China according to the Brevis Relatio / A. Lazzarotto--Making friends in the essential tension / Bao Limin--Martino Martini's Treatise on Friendship and other Chinese works / Giuliano Bertuccioli--On the contribution of Italian Sinologist Martino Martini to the cultural exchange between China and Italy / Xu Mingde--M. Martini and Hangzhou Catholic Church / John Zhu Fengqing--Trying to assess J. Aleni's mission in China / Chen Cunfu--The end of Aleni's mission in China / Lin Jinshui and Wu Huaimin--J. Aleni and Poxieji / Xia Guiqi--The purpose and significance of Aleni's writing on M. Ricci, Michael Zhang and Yang Tingyun / Xu Zuda--Intorcetta, his important contribution to Sino-Western exchange / Guo Mutian--Yang Guangxian's opposition to Adam Schall: Christianity and Western science in his work Budeyi / Eugenio Menegon--Ragioni storico-culturali della controversia dei Riti Cinesi / Pietro Tchao--On Li Zhizao's main acts and contributions to Sino-Western exchange / Huang Lanying--A study of Christian history in Wenzhou before 1949 / Mo Fayou.

中國耶穌會教士紀略 -- 包利民 : 逑友與必要的張力之中 : 論衛匡國的逑友篇 -- 徐明德 : 論意大利漢學家衛匡國在中意文化交流史上的卓越功績 -- 朱峰青 ： 杭州教堂 -- 陳村富 : 評艾儒略的傳教活動 -- 林金水, 吳懷民 : 記艾氏在閩北 -- 夏瑰琦 : 艾儒略入閩傳教與破邪集 -- 徐祖達 : 論艾儒略撰寫利瑪竇, 楊廷荺, 張識三傳之目的與意文 -- 郭慕天 : 中西文化交流的功 臣殷鐸澤 -- 楊光先對湯若望從不得已看基督教與西方科學 -- 中國禮儀之爭的歷史文化 -- 黃蘭英 : 論李之藻在中西文化交流史上的主要活動和貢獻 -- 莫法有 : 1949 年前德溫州基督教史研究.

Added keywords: Zhongguo Yesuhui jiaoshi jilue; Qiuyou pian; Chinese rites controversy (Italian)