Ancestors, Virgins, & Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China

by Eugenio Menegon

Christianity is often praised as an agent of Chinese modernization or damned as a form of cultural and religious imperialism. In both cases, Christianity's foreignness and the social isolation of converts have dominated this debate. Eugenio Menegon uncovers another story. In the sixteenth century, European missionaries brought a foreign and global religion to China. Converts then transformed this new religion into a local one over the course of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674035968
• ISBN13: 9780674035966
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"