TY - BOOK ID - 46207865 TI - Protestantism in Xiamen : Then and Now PY - 2019 SN - 3319894714 3319894706 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Religion and sociology. KW - China-History. KW - Ethnology-Asia. KW - Religion and politics. KW - Religion-History. KW - Sociology of Religion. KW - Religion and Society. KW - History of China. KW - Asian Culture. KW - Politics and Religion. KW - History of Religion. KW - Political science KW - Politics, Practical KW - Politics and religion KW - Religion KW - Religions KW - Religion and society KW - Religious sociology KW - Society and religion KW - Sociology, Religious KW - Sociology and religion KW - Sociology of religion KW - Sociology KW - Religious aspects KW - Political aspects KW - China—History. KW - Ethnology—Asia. KW - Religion—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46207865 AB - This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present. This important regional study is particularly revealing due to the unbroken history of Sino-Christian interactions in Xiamen and the extensive ties that its churches have maintained with global missions and overseas Chinese Christians. Its authors draw upon a wide range of foreign missionary and Chinese official archives, local Xiamen church publications, and fieldwork data to historicize the Protestant experience in the region. Further, the local Christians’ stories demonstrate a form of sociocultural, religious and political imagination that puts into question the Euro-American model of Christendom and the Chinese Communist-controlled Three-Self Patriotic Movement. It addresses the localization of Christianity, the reinvention of local Chinese Protestant identity and heritage, and the Protestants’ engagement with the society at large. The empirical findings and analytical insights of this collection will appeal to scholars of religion, sociology and Chinese history. ER -