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050 00 $aBR1285$b.M46 2009
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100 1 $aMenegon, Eugenio,$d1966-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95045867
245 10 $aAncestors, virgins, & friars :$bChristianity as a local religion in late Imperial China /$cEugenio Menegon.
246 18 $aAncestors, virgins, and friars
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute :$bDistributed by Harvard University Press,$c2009.
300 $axx, 450 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aHarvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;$v69
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$t"Truly unfathomable"? -- $g1.$tFuan literati, Jesuits, and Spanish friars -- $g2.$tBecoming local : conflict with gods and ancestors, 1634-1645 -- $g3.$tThe golden age of opportunity, 1645-1723 -- $g4.$tSuppression and persistence, 1723-1840s -- $g5.$tThe Christians of Fuan -- $g6.$tChristian religious fellowship in Mindong : priests, rituals, and lay institutions -- $g7.$tFilial piety, ancestral rituals, and salvation -- $g8.$tVirginity, chastity, and sex.
520 1 $a"Christianity is often praised as an agent of Chinese modernization or damned as a form of cultural and religious imperialism. In both cases, Christianity's foreignness and the social isolation of converts have dominated this debate. This book aims to uncover another story. In the sixteenth century, European missionaries brought a foreign and global religion to China. Converts then transformed this new religion into a local one." "Focusing on the still-active Catholic communities of Fuan county in northeast Fujian, this project addresses three main questions. Why did people convert? How did converts and missionaries transform a global and foreign religion into a local religion? What does Christianity's localization in Fuan tell us about the relationship between late imperial Chinese society and religion?" "The study's implications extend beyond the issue of Christianity in China to the wider fields of religious and social history and the early modern history of global intercultural relations. The book suggests that Christianity became part of a pre-existing pluralistic, local religious space and, the author argues, that we underestimate late imperial society's tolerance for "heterodoxy." The view from Fuan offers an original account of how a locality created its own religious culture in Ming and Qing China."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aChina$xChurch history.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023990
650 0 $aMissions$zChina$xHistory.
650 0 $aChristianity$zChina.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100740
830 0 $aHarvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;$v69.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42012401
852 0 $buts$hBR1285$i.M46 2009
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