Table of Contents

Contents

List of images
Acknowledgement
Introduction - Christianity: Towards a Theory of Sinicization

Part I - Agents of Introduction and Enculturation

Chapter 1: A Mission Without Missionaries: Chinese Catholics Clergy in Sichuan, 1746-1756
Robert Entenmann
Chapter 2: The Role of Union Theological Seminary (New York) in Sinicizing Christianity
Christopher D. Sneller
Chapter 3: “Taking Jesus Back to China”: New Gospel Agents in Shanghai
Yuqin Huang

Part II - Redefining Christianity for the Chinese Context

Chapter 4: Christ-human and Jia Yuming’s doctrine of sanctification
Wai Luen Kwok
Chapter 5: Sermon, Story, and Song in the Inculturation of Christianity in China
Thomas Alan Harvey
Chapter 6: Translating and Transplanting the Word of God in Chinese
Monica Romano

Part III - Building and Singing the Kingdom of God

Chapter 7: The “Sino-Christian Style”: a Major Tool for Architectural Indigenisation
Thomas Coomans
Chapter 8: Sacred Dwellings: Protestant Ancestral Halls and Homes in Southern Fujian
Chris White
Chapter 9: The Sinicization of Sacred Music: T. C. Chao
Dennis T.W. Ng
Chapter 10: Sinicising Christian Music at Shanghai Community Church
Chen Ruiwen

Epilogue - Multiple Sinicizations of Multiple Christianities
Richard Madsen

Author Biography
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Yangwen Zheng, PhD (2001), Cambridge University, is Professor of Chinese history at the University of Manchester. She has authored and edited seven books on China and Asia, including The Social Life of Opium in China (CUP, 2005).