Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China - Rilegato

Xi, Lian

 
9780300123395: Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China
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ISBN 10: 0300123396 ISBN 13: 9780300123395
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2010

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<p>This book is the first to address the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a large collection of fresh sources&#8212;including contemporaneous accounts, diaries, memoirs, archival material, and interviews&#8212;Lian Xi&#160;traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in twentieth-century China from a small, beleaguered &#8220;missionary&#8221; church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous popular religion energized by nationalism and millenarianism. Lian shows that, with a current membership that rivals that of the Chinese Communist Party, and the ability to galvanize China&#8217;s millions into apocalyptic convulsion and messianic exuberance, the popular Christian movement channels the aspirations and the discontent of the masses and will play an important role in shaping the country&#8217;s future.</p>

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Informazioni sull'autore

<div><div><b>Lian Xi</b>&#160;is professor of history at Hanover College and author of <i>The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907–1932.</i>&#160; He lives in Louisville, KY.</div></div>

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Editore
Yale Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0300123396
ISBN 13 
9780300123395
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
333
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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