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Author | : Carl S. Kilcourse |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2016-09-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1137537280 |
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This book examines the theological worldview of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–64), a Chinese revolutionary movement whose leader, Hong Xiuquan (1814–64), claimed to be the second son of God and younger brother of Jesus. Despite the profound impact of Christian books on Hong’s religious thinking, previous scholarship has neglected the localized form of Christianity that he and his closest followers created. Filling that gap in the existing literature, this book analyzes the localization of Christianity in the theology, ethics, and ritual practices of the Taipings. Carl S. Kilcourse not only reveals how Confucianism and popular religion acted as instruments of localization, but also suggests that several key aspects of the Taipings’ localized religion were inspired by terms and themes from translated Christian texts. Emphasizing this link between vernacularization and localization, Kilcourse demonstrates both the religious identity of the Taipings and their wider significance in the history of world Christianity.
Author | : Thomas H. Reilly |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295801921 |
Download The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Occupying much of imperial China’s Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions were the spiritual beliefs of the rebels. The core of the Taiping faith focused on the belief that Shangdi, the high God of classical China, had chosen the Taiping leader, Hong Xiuquan, to establish his Heavenly Kingdom on Earth. How were the Taiping rebels, professing this new creed, able to mount their rebellion and recruit multitudes of followers in their sweep through the empire? Thomas Reilly argues that the Taiping faith, although kindled by Protestant sources, developed into a dynamic new Chinese religion whose conception of its sovereign deity challenged the legitimacy of the Chinese empire. The Taiping rebels denounced the divine pretensions of the imperial title and the sacred character of the imperial office as blasphemous usurpations of Shangdi’s title and position. In place of the imperial institution, the rebels called for restoration of the classical system of kingship. Previous rebellions had declared their contemporary dynasties corrupt and therefore in need of revival; the Taiping, by contrast, branded the entire imperial order blasphemous and in need of replacement. In this study, Reilly emphasizes the Christian elements of the Taiping faith, showing how Protestant missionaries built on earlier Catholic efforts to translate Christianity into a Chinese idiom. Prior studies of the rebellion have failed to appreciate how Hong Xiuquan’s interpretation of Christianity connected the Taiping faith to an imperial Chinese cultural and religious context. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom shows how the Bible--in particular, a Chinese translation of the Old Testament--profoundly influenced Hong and his followers, leading them to understand the first three of the Ten Commandments as an indictment of the imperial order. The rebels thus sought to destroy imperial culture along with its institutions and Confucian underpinnings, all of which they regarded as blasphemous. Strongly iconoclastic, the Taiping followers smashed religious statues and imperially approved icons throughout the lands they conquered. By such actions the Taiping Rebellion transformed--at least for its followers but to some extent for all Chinese--how Chinese people thought about religion, the imperial title and office, and the entire traditional imperial and Confucian order. This book makes a major contribution to the study of the Taiping Rebellion and to our understanding of the ideology of both the rebels and the traditional imperial order they opposed. It will appeal to scholars in the fields of Chinese history, religion, and culture and of Christian theology and church history.
Author | : Roland Boer |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 900439477X |
Download Red Theology: On the Christian Communist Tradition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Red Theology: On the Christian Communist Tradition, Roland Boer presents key moments in the 2,000 year tradition of Christian communism, moving from its roots in New Testament texts to unique developments in North Korea.
Author | : Hong Beom Rhee |
Publisher | : Cambria Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1934043427 |
Download Asian Millenarianism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This groundbreaking book reexamines the Taiping and the Tonghak movements in 19th-century Asia. Providing an understanding of the movements as an expression, in part, of deeply rooted Asian spiritual ideas, the work also offers historical and philosophical reflections on what studies of Asian millenarianism can contribute to the comparative study of millenarianism.
Author | : Rudolf G. Wagner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download Reenacting the Heavenly Vision Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Margo Kitts |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2023-05-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108835449 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why is religion intertwined with war and violence? These chapters offer nuanced discussions of the key histories and themes.
Author | : John T. P. Lai |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2019-03-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004394486 |
Download Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China examines the multiple representations of Christianity through the major genres of Chinese Christian literature (novels, drama and poetry) of the late Qing and Republican periods.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2017-04-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004330380 |
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Chinese people have been instrumental in indigenizing Christianity. Sinizing Christianity examines Christianity's transplantation to and transformation in China by focusing on three key elements: Chinese agents of introduction; Chinese redefinition of Christianity for the local context; and Chinese institutions and practices that emerged and enabled indigenisation. As a matter of fact, Christianity is not an exception, but just one of many foreign ideas and religions, which China has absorbed since the formation of the Middle Kingdom, Buddhism and Islam are great examples. Few scholars of China have analysed and synthesised the process to determine whether there is a pattern to the ways in which Chinese people have redefined foreign imports for local use and what insight Christianity has to offer. Contributors are: Robert Entenmann, Christopher Sneller, Yuqin Huang, Wai Luen Kwok, Thomas Harvey, Monica Romano, Thomas Coomans, Chris White, Dennis Ng, Ruiwen Chen and Richard Madsen.
Author | : Eugene Powers Boardman |
Publisher | : Octagon Press, Limited |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Christian Influence Upon the Ideology of the Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1864 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Zhibin Xie |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2023-01-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1506486819 |
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This book addresses the issue of Christianity in public life in China through methodological and constructive approaches. It aims to answer the following questions: How does Christianity, with its moral and spiritual resources, engage in and contribute to public life in China? How does Christianity operate amidst a background of religious diversity, cultural and social dynamics, and political realities in China? The distinctive contribution of this book is that it moves beyond simple description and evaluation of what is happening in Chinese Christianity toward a constructive theology for the distinctive realities of Chinese culture, society, and politics. This book proposes Christian public responsibility in order to identify the moral problems in Chinese public life. It attempts to enhance a public face of Christianity in China theologically and ethically by activating Christian resources in response to public life and highlighting Christianity's moral impact on the state and civil society without "the imposition of confessional bonds" or "the exercise of authoritarian control." (quoted from Abraham Kuyper). This book relies on both methodological and constructive approaches to define the meaning of public theology while making theological efforts to engage in public issues constructively in the Chinese context. Besides the Western Christian public theologians such as Kuyper, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Nicholas Wolterstorff, this book extensively refers to Chinese resources such as Christian thinkers, philosophers and social scientists, etc. to perceive public theology in China. This new formulation of Christian public theology in China desires to engage with Chinese experiences, struggles, traditions and ideology such as Confucianism and communism when investigating moral responses to public issues such as social justice, human rights, and religious freedom. A Christian co-construction with philosophical and social scientific perspectives on public life will lead to the modification of moral vocabulary in Chinese public life.