Chinese Christian women have been largely excluded from studies on the history of the women’s movement in China and within studies on Chinese Christianity in the republican era. During the Mao era they were portrayed as bourgeois feminists who couldn’t really foster a true Chinese women’s mov...
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we established our Bible study group and invited priests from time to time to our group. While most of us went to local churches for Sunday Mass regularly, we did get together once a while. At that point, we didn’t have further thoughts about the future until God sent us Fr. Ed Mala...
MISSIONS.—Ancient Christian.—The introduction of Christianity into China has been ascribed not only to the Apostle of India, St. Thomas, but also to St. Bartholomew. In the third century, Arnobius, in “Adversus Gentes”, speaks of the Seres, with the Persians and the Medes, as among ...
This postdoctoral grant has been designed in synergy with the present research of the promoter, Pierre Petit, who analyses devotional medals through an anthropological and numismatic lens. Christian and Buddhist medals, Taoist (and other) coin-like talismans, and lucky charms are part of everyday ...
Virtually all major Christian churches established missions and schools in San Francisco's Chinatown, the largest in the United States and the center of cultural, economic, and political life of Chinese in North America. Among the most enduring institutions were the YMCA and YWCA, the St. Mary'...
The term is also used for similar ceremonies outside theRoman Catholic Church, especially in theAnglo-Catholicbranch ofAnglicanismand in certainLutheranchurches. Acomparable service, with a wholly different ritual form and texts, exists in theEastern OrthodoxandEastern Catholic Churches, as well as in...
But not before publishingGod Is Red, a book based on interviews with diverse Chinese Christians. Liao makes clear that he is not a Christian himself, despite the attempts of some of these believers to convert him. He is fascinated by the vitality of the churches, however, and by the tenaci...
The term is also used for similar ceremonies outside theRoman Catholic Church, especially in theAnglo-Catholicbranch ofAnglicanismand in certainLutheranchurches. Acomparable service, with a wholly different ritual form and texts, exists in theEastern OrthodoxandEastern Catholic Churches, as well as in...