The Church As Safe Haven : Christian Governance in China.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface: In Permanent Gratitude to R.G. Tiedemann -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Christianity and Community Governance in Modern China -- Part 1 Spirit / : Filling a Cosmological Void -- Chapter 2 Torch-Bearers of Modernity? Western Missionaries, Demonism and Exorcism in Modern China (1860s-1930s) -- Chapter 3 Signs of Power: Christians' Search for Certainty in Troubled Times (1906-1919) -- Chapter 4 Buddhist-Christian Encounters: Robert Morrison and the Haichuang Buddhist Temple in Nineteenth-Century Canton -- Chapter 5 Seeking Convergence: Richard Wilhelm, Wu Leichuan, and their Quest for a Shared Confucian-Christian Vision -- Part 2 Intellect / 智: Christianizing Chinese Hearts and Minds -- Chapter 6 Mission Education and New Opportunities: American Presbyterian Schools in Shandong Province -- Chapter 7 Trained to Care: The Institutionalization of Nursing in Hong Kong (1887-1900) -- Chapter 8 Patriotic Cooperation: Why was the Church-Run Border Service Department Established in Wartime China? -- Chapter 9 Building a National Bible Society: The China Bible House and the Indigenization of Bible Work -- Part 3 Body / : Christian Activism in Local Society -- Chapter 10 Faith and Charity: Christian Disaster Management in 1920s Chaozhou -- Chapter 11 Catholic Mission Stations in Northern China: Centers of Stability and Protection in Troubled Times -- Chapter 12 Revive, Survive, and Divide: Rebuilding Seventh-Day Adventism in Wenzhou -- Index.

The Church as Safe Haven conceptualizes the rise of Chinese Christianity as a new civilizational paradigm that encouraged individuals and communities to construct a sacred order for empowerment in modern China.

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