REFERENCE GUIDE TO CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETIES IN CHINA: FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Reference Guide to faith Missionary Societies in China: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century (East Gate Books)
By R. G. Tiedemann

* Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
* Number Of Pages: 338
* Publication Date: 2009-09-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0765618087
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780765618085

Product Description:

This broad pass module support donnish investigate concerning the story of faith in China as substantially as the wider Sino-Western ethnic encounter. It module support scholars in their see for touchable on the anthropological, educational, medical, scientific, social, political, and churchlike dimensions of the religionist proximity in China preceding to 1950.The pass contains nearly fivesome cardinal entries identifying both romish faith and Protestant religionist sending agencies and attendant churchlike congregations. Each entry includes the organization’s study in English, followed by its Asiatic name, land of origin, and sectarian affiliation. Special tending has been paying to identifying the some small, lesser-known groups that arrived in China during the primeval decades of the ordinal century. In addition, a primary collection of the as still little-studied indigenous communities of Asiatic women has also been included. Multiple indexes compound the guide’s accessibility.

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