Civilizing missions: international religious agencies in China
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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Published: |
Basingstoke
Palgrave Macmillan
2008
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In: | Year: 2008 |
Edition: | 1. ed. |
Series/Journal: | Culture and religion in international relations
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Mission (international law
/ Cultural contact
/ History 1800-1920
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Further subjects: | B
Missions
China
B Missions Theory |
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Item Description: | Introduction: Christian "civilizing missions" of the past and present -- Theory and history -- "Civilizing missions" and ethnic communities in China -- The Chinese state as a civilizer of ethnic minorities : civilization and religion in Chinese history -- Evangelism and its unintended consequences : Christian missionaries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Contemporary "civilizing missions"? -- Christian evangelism in a Tibetan Buddhism community : the Jian Hua Foundation -- Presence evangelism : the Salvation Army -- Secular use of local religion : Oxfam Hong Kong. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-254) and index. - Formerly CIP |
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ISBN: | 0230608973 |