A New Standard Reference Work on Bibles in China
As a relatively open academic atmosphere related to religious studies in general became manifest in the People's Republic of China in the early 1990s, new possibilities for studies of various forms of Christianity in greater China (the mainland and Chinese communities outside of the PRC) began...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2023
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2023, Volume: 74, Issue: 4, Pages: 846-857 |
| Review of: | The Oxford handbook of the Bible in China (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021) (Pfister, Lauren F.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible
/ China
/ Christianity
/ History 1600-2020
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | As a relatively open academic atmosphere related to religious studies in general became manifest in the People's Republic of China in the early 1990s, new possibilities for studies of various forms of Christianity in greater China (the mainland and Chinese communities outside of the PRC) began to be realised both within China and overseas. Within the first decade of the twenty-first century, two major handbooks related to the study of Christianity in China were produced under the editorships of the Belgian Jesuit scholar, Nicolas Standaert (1959-) and the German Protestant scholar, R. G. Tiedemann (1941-2019), initiating what should be considered to be the most up-to-date and essentially new standard reference works regarding the study of all forms of Christianity that have had interactions with various Chinese persons over the period of time from the beginning of the Tang dynasty (seventh century) to the year 2000. Both volumes were large by any standard, the former being nearly a thousand pages in length, and the latter extending beyond a thousand pages. Both produced a state-of-the-art account of their particular historical coverage of varying forms of Christianity that came to or emerged within China during those periods. Notably, most of the supporting authors who contributed to those two massive volumes were foreign scholars of the history of Christianity in China and Chinese Christianity. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046923000015 |