Missionary Primitivism and Chinese Modernity.
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Note on Sources -- Introduction -- 1 The Origins of the Brethren -- 2 Missions and Modernity in China -- 3 Primitivism and Missionary Writing -- 4 Outline of Chapters -- Chapter 1: Living by Faith: Brethren Missionaries in th...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies in Christian Mission Ser.
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9789004336759 |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Note on Sources -- Introduction -- 1 The Origins of the Brethren -- 2 Missions and Modernity in China -- 3 Primitivism and Missionary Writing -- 4 Outline of Chapters -- Chapter 1: Living by Faith: Brethren Missionaries in the Modern World -- 1 'A Proof That He Has Not in the Least Changed': Primitive Christianity in the Modern World -- 2 Against Mission Societies: a Primitivist Method of Mission -- 2.1 Jiangxi Province -- 2.2 Shandong Province -- 2.3 Inner Mongolia -- 3 Echoes of Service and Brethren Mission: Keepers of the Primitivist Flame? -- 4 Primitivism, Culture and Empire -- 5 Echoes of Service and The Christian Occupation of China -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 2: 'So Far from This Land as China': the Primitivism of Watchman Nee -- 1 The Problem of 'Chinese Christianity' -- 2 Chinese Nationalism, Social Mobility and Independent Christianity -- 3 The Origins of the Little Flock -- 4 Nee and the Brethren -- 5 Nee in Britain -- 6 The Expansion of the Little Flock -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter 3: 'To the Uttermost Part': Reginald Sturt and the Evangelisation of the Mongols -- 1 The Echoes of Service Mission to Mongolia -- 2 Mission among the Mongols in Historical Perspective -- 3 Central Asia and the New Science of Missions -- 4 The Progress of the Echoes of Service Mission to Mongolia -- 5 Sturt's Itinerations -- 6 Sturt and the Promotion of Primitivism -- 7 Modern Mongolia and Tibetan Buddhism -- 8 Primitivism and the Battle for Modern Manchuria -- 9 Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Primitivism and Politics: the Echoes of Service Mission to Tibet -- 1 Geoffrey Bull and George Patterson: a Calling to Tibet -- 2 Unsettled Boundaries: Britain, China and Tibet -- 3 Missionary Work on the Colonial Periphery -- 4 Missionary Primitivism and Tibetan Modernity -- 5 Conclusion. |
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| ISBN: | 9004376100 |