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Author Woodbridge, David

Title Missionary Primitivism and Chinese Modernity
Published Boston : BRILL, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (185 pages)
Series Studies in Christian Mission Ser
Studies in Christian Mission Ser
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Note on Sources; Introduction; 1 The Origins of the Brethren; 2 Missions and Modernity in China; 3 Primitivism and Missionary Writing; 4 Outline of Chapters; Chapter 1: Living by Faith: Brethren Missionaries in the Modern World; 1 'A Proof That He Has Not in the Least Changed': Primitive Christianity in the Modern World; 2 Against Mission Societies: a Primitivist Method of Mission; 2.1 Jiangxi Province; 2.2 Shandong Province; 2.3 Inner Mongolia; 3 Echoes of Service and Brethren Mission: Keepers of the Primitivist Flame?
4 Primitivism, Culture and Empire5 Echoes of Service and The Christian Occupation of China; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 2: 'So Far from This Land as China': the Primitivism of Watchman Nee; 1 The Problem of 'Chinese Christianity'; 2 Chinese Nationalism, Social Mobility and Independent Christianity; 3 The Origins of the Little Flock; 4 Nee and the Brethren; 5 Nee in Britain; 6 The Expansion of the Little Flock; 7 Conclusion; Chapter 3: 'To the Uttermost Part': Reginald Sturt and the Evangelisation of the Mongols; 1 The Echoes of Service Mission to Mongolia
2 Mission among the Mongols in Historical Perspective3 Central Asia and the New Science of Missions; 4 The Progress of the Echoes of Service Mission to Mongolia; 5 Sturt's Itinerations; 6 Sturt and the Promotion of Primitivism; 7 Modern Mongolia and Tibetan Buddhism; 8 Primitivism and the Battle for Modern Manchuria; 9 Conclusion; Chapter 4: Primitivism and Politics: the Echoes of Service Mission to Tibet; 1 Geoffrey Bull and George Patterson: a Calling to Tibet; 2 Unsettled Boundaries: Britain, China and Tibet; 3 Missionary Work on the Colonial Periphery
4 Missionary Primitivism and Tibetan Modernity5 Conclusion; Chapter 5: Missionary Primitivism versus Chinese Modernity: Fallout from the Withdrawal from China; 1 The Final Years of the Echoes of Service Mission to China; 2 Sovereignty and Redeployment: Immediate Reactions to Withdrawal; 3 Primitivism and Politics: Emerging Tensions; 4 Tibet and the Cold War: Diverging Responses; 5 Against the Tide: Watchman Nee in Communist China; 6 Primitivism in a Postcolonial World; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Open Brethren -- Missions -- China
SUBJECT Open Brethren fast
Subject Missions -- China
Plymouth Brethren -- Missions -- China
Primitivism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Christianity -- Influence
Christianity -- Influence
Missions
Plymouth Brethren -- Missions
Primitivism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
China
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004376106
9004376100