Overview
- Written by scholars from Italy, the U.S., China mainland, and Hong Kong
- Provides various perspectives and covering the Chinese Church in the contemporary period
- Considers the Church on the different levels--the diplomatic, the governmental, the communal, and the individual
Part of the book series: Christianity in Modern China (CMC)
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This edited volume starts from the perspectives of Beijing in how it sees that religion should serve the interests of the state. From China’s viewpoint, religion should act as a stabilizing force of society, or else the Christian Churches will lose their reason for existence. This might be incomprehensible to Western Christians, who believe in the freedom of religion and their right to embrace their faith. This collection of articles represents the concerted efforts of Chinese, Italians, and an American—who live in China, Europe, and the United States and belong to different disciplines, such as History, Religious Studies, and Language Studies—to promote a better understanding of the Catholic Church in the world and in China.
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Reviews
“This publication, edited by Cindy Yik-yi Chu, professor of history at Hong Kong Baptist University, is a collection of seven articles grouped into three parts whose titles, when juxtaposed, create the title of the whole book. … Everybody interested in Christianity, especially Catholicism, in China will undoubtedly find significant intellectual benefits from reading these articles.” (Wojciech Rybka, Monumenta Serica, December 16, 2024)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Cindy Yik-yi Chu is Professor of History at Hong Kong Baptist University and Editor of the Christianity in Modern China Series of Palgrave Macmillan. She writes on the Catholic Church and the Catholic sisters in China and Hong Kong. Her recent work is edited with Paul P. Mariani, People, Communities, and the Catholic Church in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Catholic Church, The Bible, and Evangelization in China
Editors: Cindy Yik-yi Chu
Series Title: Christianity in Modern China
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6182-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6181-5Published: 19 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6184-6Published: 20 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-6182-2Published: 01 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2730-7875
Series E-ISSN: 2730-7883
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 145
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Religious Studies, general, European History, Catholicism, Christianity