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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Chinese Christians"”.
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Indirect dialogue between Chinese Christians and Muslim Huis: on the concept of collective transcendence deeply rooted in Chinese culture
This thesis proposes that Chinese people transcend themselves on a collective basis, named as ‘collective transcendence’ in this thesis. This cultural transcendence is a product of Confucianism that relates individual quest for eternity to the survival of a person’s clan. The notion of collective …
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Socialization in Chinese Academic Immigrants' Conversion to Christianity
… of this research is to find social factors in Chinese academic immigrants’ conversion to Christianity using the perspectives of symbolic interactionism and social exchange theory. The research data are drawn from observation and interviews. Fourteen Chinese student converts were interviewed. …
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Zhang Yijing (1871-1931) and the search for a Chinese Christian identity
… at contextualization of the Christian message by Chinese Christians at the beginning of the twentieth century by analysing the life and works of Zhang Yijing. Chinese Christians’ various understandings of their identity are revealed in their different ways of contextualizing the Christian message. …
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Seeking Redemption and Sanctity: Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian Literati and their Self-Writing
… this field, the study of educated Chinese Christians have gained momentum especially since the paradigm shift in the late 1970s "from a mainly missiological and Eurocentric to a Sinological and Sinocentric approach." On the other hand, we still know more about a few high-profile …
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The paradoxical co-existence of submissiveness and subversiveness in the theology of Yu-Ming Jia
… theologian who was actively engaged himself in Chinese protestant churches and theological education during the first half of the 20th century. It was seen that he constructed his theology mainly in a hierarchical context, i.e., the subjugating relationship between missionaries and Chinese …
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The Hybrid Spirit Animating Chinese Pentecostals in Malaysia
… transcend.</p> <p>Through qualitative study of Chinese members of a Pentecostal church in Malaysia, this study argues that church members engage in "unequal belonging" where they privilege certain elements of their identities over others. In concert with Pierre Bourdieu's conceptions of …