Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion - Hardcover

Reinders, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520241711 ISBN 13: 9780520241718

Verlag: University of California Press, 2004

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Book by Reinders Eric

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To the Victorians, the Chinese were invariably "inscrutable." The meaning and provenance of this impression--and, most importantly, its workings in nineteenth-century Protestant missionary encounters with Chinese religion--are at the center of Eric Reinders's Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies, an enlightening look at how missionaries' religious identity, experience, and physical foreignness produced certain representations of China between 1807 and 1937. Reinders first introduces the imaginative world of Victorian missionaries and outlines their application of mind-body dualism to the dualism of self and other. He then explores Western views of the Chinese language, especially ritual language, and Chinese ritual, particularly the kow-tow. His work offers surprising and valuable insight into the visceral nature of the Victorian response to the Chinese--and, more generally, into the nineteenth-century Western representation of China.

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"This is truly a multidisciplinary work. Reinders raises profound questions about how people from one culture view people in another. The materials Reinders richly mines in this book reveal to a Western readership so much about itself. Skillful and crisp, "Borrowed Gods is extremely well written, and will no doubt appeal to an audience of students, scholars, and lay readers alike."--John Berthrong, Boston University School of Theology, author of All Under Heaven: Transforming Paradigms in Confucian-Christian Dialogue

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0520241711
• ISBN 13: 9780520241718
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 283