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The comparative "merits" of Christian conversion: Early diasporic Chinese Protestantism (1803--1840) in formation.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The comparative "merits" of Christian conversion: Early diasporic Chinese Protestantism (1803--1840) in formation./
作者:	Seitz, Jonathan A.
面頁冊數:	312 p.
附註:	Adviser: Richard F. Young.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
標題:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3316578
ISBN:	9780549642312

The comparative "merits" of Christian conversion: Early diasporic Chinese Protestantism (1803--1840) in formation.
Seitz, Jonathan A.

The comparative "merits" of Christian conversion: Early diasporic Chinese Protestantism (1803--1840) in formation. - 312 p.

Adviser: Richard F. Young.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton Theological Seminary, 2007.

In the early nineteenth century, the London Missionary Society began a mission to Chinese-speaking Southeast Asia. While many studies have treated this process institutionally, few have looked at how Chinese understood, appropriated, or contested efforts at conversion. Chapter one treats theories of conversion and the relationship between Robert Morrison and Yong Sam-Tak in London. I argue for an approach that combines the historical and systemic strengths of Weberian approaches with theories more sympathetic to local contingency and the adaptive range of Chinese religion.

ISBN: 9780549642312Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

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520 $a Chapter two treats missionary literature in Chinese and missionary attempts to understand Chinese religion and culture. Missionaries distributed tracts in the tens or hundreds of thousands and continued to develop a Christian lexicon started by the earlier Catholic encounter. In Chapter 3, I use the rubric of "the conversion of missionaries" to study the early sinological efforts of the LMS missionaries.
520 $a Chapters four and five recount and analyze the first two major conversions (Tsae A-ko and Liang Fa). Tsae's account is recorded only in English, whereas Liang's conversion is described by missionaries as well as by Liang himself, in his famous work Good News to Admonish the Ages. Themes in these conversions include: the relationship between convert and mission, the missionary fear of material incentives for conversion, the liminal role of baptism in conversion, Reformed soteriology, the use of "merit" language to describe atonement or salvation in Christian theology and Chinese religion, and the significance of family systems to conversion. Chapter six treats Liang's first converts, small-scale early persecutions, the development of the LMS mission, and the continued reconfiguration of Chinese Christian identity.
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