Beyond indigenization : Christianity and Chinese history in a global context / edited by Tao Feiya ; translated by Max L. Bohnenkamp.

Collection of essays translated from Chinese.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. The Sinicization of Scripture and Thought. 1. The Chronology of the Tang Dynasty Jingjiao Nestorian Theologian Jingjing’s Writings and Translations in Relation to His Thought / Zhu Donghua –- 2. The Fountainhead of Chinese-Language Christian Theology: Matteo Ricci’s “Doctrine of the Sovereign of Heaven” and Proof for the Existence of God / Ji Jianxun – 3.  Interpretation of the Chinese Classics in a Cross-Cultural Linguistic Context: a Case Study of Antonio Caballero’s How Catholicism Was Sealed in Ancient Confucianism / Wu Liwei –- 4. The Transmission of Catholicism to the East and the Restructuring of Early Qing Literati Thought: a Study on the Intellectual Tide of “Venerating Heaven” / Liu Yunhua – 5. Interpretation and Divergence: Responses to the Dissemination of Jesus’s Image in Ming and Qing Society / Xiao Qinghe – 6. Mary in the Poetry of Heavenly Learning during the Ming-Qing Transition / Dai Guoqing – 7. Dismantling Followed by Construction: the Writing Strategies of Karl Gützlaff’s Chinese Christian Fiction / John Tsz-pang Lai – 8. From Children’s Instructional Textbook to Missionary Tool: the Publication History of the Christian Three-Character Classic from 1823 to 1880 / Guo Hong – 9. The Changing Image of Martin Luther in Late Qing China / Zhang Ke

Part 2. The Diversity of Conflict. 10. Communities of Catholic Virgins in the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties / Zhou Pingping – 11. The Entanglements of “Chastity” and “Sex”: a Case Study of Culture Clash in the Fu’an and Suzhou Religious Incidents (1746–1748) during the Qianlong Period / Kang Zhijie – 12. The 1906 Nanchang Religious Incident and the Chinese-Western Press War in Shanghai / Yang Xiongwei – 13. A Difficult Petition: the 1895 Christian Missionary Memorial to the Qing Emperor / Tao Feiya.

Part 3. Relations between Religions. 14. Reflections of the Relationship between Buddhism and Christianity during the Early Modern Era in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal/ Yang Xiongwei and Wu Wenhui – 15. The Dialogue between Islam and Christianity in the Republican Era from the Perspective of Christian Missionaries: a Study of Isaac Mason’s “Conciliatory” Strategy of Literary Evangelizing / Liu Qinhua – 16. The Christian Fundamentalist Understanding and Critique of the “Charismatic Movement” in Republican Era China / Zhang Yongguang – 17. The Role of China in the Dissemination of Christianity to the Korean Peninsula in the Early Modern Era / Shu Jian./

Part 4. Beyond Religion. 18. Chinese and the Science of Language: the Search for a Chinese Research Methodology by Comparative Linguistics and Nineteenth-Century Sinology / Chen Zhe and Ding Yan – 19. The International Reform Bureau and the Origins of Collaborative International Drug Prohibition: a Case Study of the 1909 “International Opium Commission” / Zhang Yong’an – 20. Communism in the Discourse of Protestant Missionaries in China / Yang Weihua.

"The volume, edited by Tao Feiya and translated into English for the first time by Max Bohnenkamp, traces the history of Christianity in China and explores the dynamics of Christian practices in Chinese society. Its twenty chapters, written by Chinese scholars of history, span the development of Christianity in China from the era of the Tang Dynasty to the People's Republic of China. The four parts of the volume explore the Sinicization of Christian texts and thought, the conflicts within China between Christianity and Chinese institutions, relations between religious groups, and societal issues beyond religion. Taken together, this volume places the practice of Christianity in China into the context of world history, while investigating the particular and localized challenges of Christianity in China throughout history"-- Provided by publisher.

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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]

The Latin inscription on the cover reads: “Parvi tractatus populares Taoismi (in reality it is a treatise on the three popular Chinese religions).”

Cf. Courant 5710. The Naikaku bunko owns a Ming edition (seven juan, two ce) of the Sanjiao yuanliu soushen daquan 三教源流搜神大全; see NBC, p. 287 (no further information).
Source: Albert Chan, SJ, Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 22.

Contents keywords: Foreign religions, indiginous religions, Buddhism, Nestorianism, Islam, Judaism, Mani, Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhist pantheon, saints, spirits, Lohan's, Boddhisatva's, Sacred mountains, temples, Wutaishan 五台山, Emei 峨眉, Putuo 普陀山, Jiuhuashan 九華山, Buddhist temples, religious texts, textual resources, classics, Dunhuang, Beijing, Tibetan religion, Christianity, Matteo Ricci 利瑪竇, Zhalan 柵欄 cemetery, Jesuits of the late Ming and early Qing, Muslims, Daoist sages, Daoist pantheon, folk religion, gods and goddesses.

NOTE: Library has vol. 6 only. Other volumes in the series are here listed for information only:
1. 民俗文化卷 -- 2. 宮廷文化卷 -- 3. 旅游文化卷 -- 4. 北京文化卷 -- 5. 民族文化卷 -- 6. 宗教文化卷 -- 7. 歷史史文化卷 -- 8. 藝術文化卷 -- 9. 茶酒文化卷 -- 10. 中外交流卷.

LC call number for set: DS721.C574 1997a