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The Indigenization of Christianity in China III
As the third volume of a three-volume set on the indigenization of Christianity in modern China, this book analyzes the endeavors of Christianity in adapting to the changing social environment between the late 1920s and the end of the twentieth century. Over the course of its growth in modern China, Christianity has faced many twists and turns in attempting to embed itself in Chinese society and indigenous culture. This three-volume set delineates the genesis and trajectory of Christianity’s indigenization in China over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, highlighting the actions of Chinese Christians and the relationship between the development of Christianity in China a...
Contemporary Religious Studies in China
When looking back to the spectacular history since the founding of the PRC, we realize the huge accomplishment of contemporary China, and the remarkable spirit of Chinese people. Just as in other branches, the achievements of contemporary Chinese academic development are fully manifested in the research and results of contemporary Chinese religious studies. Therefore, there is special academic value and practical significance for the development and the future of our religious studies to reexamine and explore this period of history. During the academic development of contemporary China, religious studies became one of the most developed and popular, as well as controversial, subjects. This is because religious studies have been situated in a complex background, and it is difficult to have a well-situated position with broad spectrums and sensitive questions. Hence, religious studies is a growing subject, and the understanding of its connotation and extension is still on the way. The full development of religious studies as a discipline will represent the real leap of Chinese religious studies.
The Sinicization of Chinese Religions: From Above and Below
Since its announcement by Xi Jinping in 2015, “Sinicization” has become the slogan that guides Chinese official policy towards religion. What does it mean? What effects is it having on Chinese religions? Where will it lead? This book, with contributions from experts in the major religious traditions in China, is one of the first in English that answers these questions. From the top down, Sinicization is a project to control all forms of religion in China, even ancient indigenous forms, to make them conform to the demands of its Party-State. From the bottom up, however, religious believers are using the slogan either to sincerely attempt to adapt traditional practices to their modern cultural context or to protect their faith by offering lip service to government demands – or some combination of the two.
Contemporary Religious Studies in China
It is a spectacular history since the founding of the PRC. When looking back to the history, we realize the huge accomplishment of the contemporary China, and the remarkable spirit of Chinese people. Just as that in other branches, the achievements of contemporary Chinese academic development are fully manifested in the research and results of contemporary Chinese religious studies. Therefore, there is special academic value and practical significance for the development and the future of our religious studies to reexamine this period of history and explore how contemporary Chinese scholars think about it. During the academic development of contemporary China, religious studies be¬ come one...
Moltmann in China
The book explores the reception of the German theologian Jürgen Moltmann (1926–2024) in the context of Chinese academic theology. The author introduces the reception of Moltmann’s theology in Chinese contexts as a dialogic process of intercultural learning and theological meaning-making, encompassing readings of Western intellectual history, Marxist dialogue, political philosophy, and comparative studies. By thus presenting Moltmann studies in Chinese scholarship as an interactive, interdisciplinary conversation between contemporary Chinese intellectuals and Western Christianity, the present theological reception history argues for the full inclusion and deeper appreciation of Chinese s...
Chinese Public Theology
It has been widely recognized that Christianity is the fastest growing religion in one of the last communist-run countries of the world: the People's Republic of China. Yet it would be a mistake to describe Chinese Christianity as merely a clandestine faith or, as hoped by the Communist Party of China, a privatized religion. Alexander Chow argues that Christians in mainland China have been constructing a more intentional public theology to engage the Chinese state and society, since the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). Chinese Public Theology recalls the events which have led to this transformation and examines the developments of Christianity across three generations of Chinese int...
Sino-Christian Studies in China
In the 1980s there was a wave of introducing western thoughts in the academia of Mainland China. The significance of this movement is regarded by some Chinese scholars as another Enlightenment since the May 4th movement, 1919. In this movement there was a small group of Chinese scholars who thought that subtle interaction between Christian thought and western culture and academic should be noticed. The aim of this book is at reporting this academic movement, which is still active and dynamic today. This book includes 22 essays written by authors from Mainland China and overseas, who may be intra or extra ecclesia. But all of them are prominent in their respective geographical and academic area. This is the first book introducing to the English-speaking world the origin and development of Sino-Chirstian Studies and Sino-Christian Theology systematically.
Contemporary Chinese Thought
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Religious Faith of the Chinese
This book comprehensively examines religious faith in China from the perspective of cultural philosophy and cultural history. It explores the social, political, cultural and spiritual meanings of religions, tracing their historical development and related paradigm shifts. It also analyzes the characteristics of the country’s local religions and the process of indigenization of world religions, and describes the peaceful co-existence and harmonious confluence of multiple religions in Chinese spiritual life, revealing the vibrant and diverse colors of its religious culture. Examining these religions’ social and cultural functions in contemporary Chinese society, the book demonstrates the rich and complex intertwinement of religious faith, cultural spirit and national disposition among the Chinese people.
Rahner Beyond Rahner
One hundred years after the birth of Karl Rahner, the contributors to this book ask whether and how RahnerOs theology can address new religious and cultural realities in the twenty-first century, particularly those realities found on what has come to be called Othe Pacific Rim.O Stretching from California and Latin America, and across the Pacific Ocean to Asia, this geographic region manifests an incredible cultural and religious diversity, but also many points of intersection and interpenetration, resulting in new forms of religion and spirituality. The theological categories generated by Rahner, such as the anonymous Christian and even the notion of a world church, meet steep challenges wh...
