Competing Loyalties in a Contested Space: The Lutheran Middle School in Hunan Province, 1907–1914
This study explores the complexities of mission–state and church–state relations from a micro-level perspective, asking how the missionaries, teachers, and pupils at the Lutheran Middle School in Hunan Province negotiated conflicting claims on church membership and national citizenship. As historian...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2024
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Religions
Year: 2024, Volume: 15, Issue: 5 |
Further subjects: | B
Lutheran missions
B mission schools B Taiping B Hunan B the Norwegian Missionary Society B Education B middle school B Radicalization B Protestant missions B Revolution |
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Summary: | This study explores the complexities of mission–state and church–state relations from a micro-level perspective, asking how the missionaries, teachers, and pupils at the Lutheran Middle School in Hunan Province negotiated conflicting claims on church membership and national citizenship. As historian Stephen R. Platt points out, Hunan is not a microcosm of modern China.. When dealing with nationalism in a Hunanese context, it is sometimes more accurate to speak of Hunanese nationalism rather than Chinese nationalism. This micro-level case study sheds light on the general trends of changing mission-state and church-state encounters, but it also emphasizes unexpected expressions of local Christianity in a context that has not so far been given much scholarly attention. |
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ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel15050589 |