Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

China and the True Jesus

Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church

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Produktbeschreibung

The True Jesus Church was China's first major native Christian denomination and one of the earliest expressions of the charismatic and Pentecostal tradition that now dominates Chinese Christianity. Founded in 1917, after a silk merchant had a vision of Jesus, the Church was characterized by dramatic healings, exorcisms, tongues-speaking, and a call for a return to authentic Christianity that challenged the Western missionary establishment in China. In this history ofthe True Jesus Church, Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye links together key themes from modern Chinese social history to tell the story of how members of the True Jesus Church in China over the past century have sought to muster divine and human resources to transform their world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780190923464
• ISBN-10: 0190923466
• Artikelnr.: 53932378

Autorenporträt

Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Auckland. Her areas of research interest include the social and cultural history of modern China, charismatic global Christianity, and women and religion. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 2011.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction
1 - Missionaries in the Manchu City
2 - A Smaller, Bigger World
3 - The First and Last Day
4 - The Three Lives of Deaconess Yang
5 - Four Governments in China
6 - Saving Comrade Stalin's Soul
7 - The Handwritten Hymnbook
8 - Don't Be Like the Gentiles
9 - The Parable of the Cursed Chicken
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index