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Conflict And Accomendation To The Spread Of Christianity In The Late Qing Dynasty

Posted on:2016-11-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330470482937Subject:Special History
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History of Christian missions in China, and China is actually a Christian community, especially the history of their interaction with the local community, not only for this interaction between the two conflicts, but also the performance of mutual adaptation, and these conflicts and Adaptation showing a strong geographical characteristics. Based on this, the paper 1860--1911 Southern Jiangsu Province in a range of areas to study the spread of Christianity in this process of interaction with the local community.Early excommunication policy makes clear the bottom line mission gradually rise, based on this situation, missionary missionary route into contact with "top-down" and bureaucracy since the Ming Dynasty missionary, into a "bottom-up" mission-oriented and civilian sectors Objectively, making the majority of the community of believers from the gentry class extends down to the civilian population strata. The number of civilian sectors of the population accounted for the vast majority of society, social interaction of this class are more likely to produce a herd mentality, the family, the neighbors or living area makes a lot of the underlying ethos of the people to convert to Christianity by probation. Meanwhile signed many unequal treaties forced the Qing government in 1860 with the following fundamental change in policy for missionary Christian missionary made "legal" umbrella, thereby further facilitate broader Sunan society, believers 1860 constitution also more complex than before.Through case studies and Christian missionaries to South Jiangsu Province and local social conflicts found, because local officials Cultural differences and political exclusion of Christianity, and produce a lot of conflict between the social environment, missionary and local community at that time, The most common variety of old church hall is also the case, gentry-led anti-Christian Jietie case, the trouble caused by the refugees in 1891 Yangtze lesson plans and Christians seek personal interests and other cases. These lesson plans occurred not simply be attributed to the process due to the spreading of Christianity and religion in conflict and bring outsiders was extremely unstable social environment in the South where large gentry class society deliberately guide, many will thus produce lesson plans.In order to meet southern area of Jiangsu Province local Christian community has taken a variety of means and methods. In addition to traditional missionaries preaching Bong way to persuade Catholics, but also set up religious schools to provide students with shelter, set up clinics, pharmacies and hospitals to provide patients with medicines and western medicine treatment of disease services. With the launching of the secularization of work, missionaries to expand the scope of its mission, the number of Catholics rising southern area of Jiangsu Province local society with a more extensive and in-depth contact. By South of Jiangsu area’s unique local elements of Chinese and Western cultures encountered heterogeneous investigation and, it is believed there is a conflict in 1860 after missionary in the southern region of the activities carried out with the local community and adaptation sides, and these conflicts and adapt showing a significant geographical features. Only the actual process of this conflict and to adapt to inspect social history, to discover the nature and characteristics of different cultures, thus recognizing local society to a modern path.
Keywords/Search Tags:The Late Qing Dynasty, Christianity, Conflict, Accomendation, South of Jiangsu area community
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