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The Chinese Christianity collection is a comprehensive free online collection of Chinese theology and on Christianity in China, including material in Chinese as well in other languages relating to Chinese theology and Christianity. The online collection is a joint initiative from Globethics, Geneva, and Kingdom Business College, Beijing, China. The collection includes:
-Academic and scientific literature, including commentaries, theses/dissertations, educational documents, curricula etc.
-Collections of sermons, prayers, liturgical and worship material
-Biblical collections (commentaries, theology, handbooks etc.)
-Material from partner institutions, seminaries, universities, publishers, and/or content providers in China, Hong Kong SAR, and the United States, such as the Institute of Sino-Christian Studies, the Hong Kong Baptist University, Yale Divinity School, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)
-Open access sources, harvested from Chinese open repositories
-Audio-visual materials including sermons, music, worship and Christian art, architecture, manuscripts etc.
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The spirituality of caregiving: With reference to clinical pastoral training in Hong KongThe context for this study is the researcher’s professional context as a supervisor of Clinical Pastoral Care Training (CPT) for Hong Kong spiritual caregivers. The purpose of the study is to enhance the researcher’s professional practice by exploring the understanding of spirituality held by Hong Kong Chinese spiritual caregivers and the kinds of influences that might have shaped their understanding and practice. My professional interaction with trainees as a CPT supervisor revealed a confused understanding of spirituality among Hong Kong Chinese spiritual caregivers, and resulting difficulties in their practice in the local healthcare services. Engagement with the literature in four contexts: spirituality in the healthcare service, in Christianity, in CPT, and in Hong Kong Chinese culture, highlighted confusion within each context and conflict between the different influences. In light of this conceptual framework, qualitative interviews were conducted with three chaplains and three registered nurses to uncover the understanding of spirituality held by Hong Kong Chinese spiritual caregivers and the kinds of influences that might have shaped their understanding and practice. The aim was to explore their experiences in caregiving and CPT so that future training might better address the needs of Hong Kong Chinese spiritual caregivers. The dynamics between the four shaping influences—the healthcare system, Christianity, CPT and cultural factors—were important in shaping the participants’ understanding and practice and also led to identity confusion. Within this complex set of relations, four related concepts were drawn out in connection with the meaning of spirituality. Spirituality was found to be about the person, about God, about relationships, and about love. The identification of these four diffused concepts of spirituality and the analysis of the dynamics between the four different influences affecting spiritual caregivers’ understanding is the contribution this study makes to knowledge. The research process enhanced the researcher’s intellectual and professional understanding of a certain confusion about spirituality in the Hong Kong healthcare context. A modest change to practice is recommended, so that CPT may address this confusion that is evident among Hong Kong Chinese health caregivers.
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Religious Situation in the People’s Republic of China under Deng Xiaoping at the Background of Socio-Economic ReformsThe paper is a description of the religious situation in China during the period of socio-economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that there is currently a restructuring transition in China’s economic system, which effects and brings about changes in all spheres of life, including the religious one. The purpose of this study is to show how state measures can lead the country out of a spiritual crisis. In the process of the study, the comparative analytical approach has been used to identify the most important moments in China’s religious policy during the rule of Deng Xiaoping. We have analyzed not only statistical data, but also official documents, which ultimately allowed us to define our own position on the problem. The paper shows what changes the religious system of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) underwent and how much damage was inflicted on it during the rule of Mao Zedong. It has been pointed out that Deng Xiaoping was forced under the conditions of the economic crisis to embark on a path of socio-economic reforms that provoked negative trends in the spiritual sphere. The new leadership of the country led by Deng Xiaoping found a way out of this situation in the restoration of freedom of religion and in the return to traditional values. It has been shown the revitalization of the religious life of the PRC began in the 1980s. Based on the results of the study, the following conclusions have been made: the socio-economic reforms caused a spiritual crisis in China; the way out of this crisis was the return to the system of traditional values and the revival of religious life in the country. To overcome the challenges, a number of legislative acts were adopted, and the leading role played by the intelligentsia and clergy was restored in the society. The results obtained are of great importance for researchers who deal with the issues on China’s spiritual development.
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Efficacy of a Church-Based, Culturally Tailored Program to Promote Completion of Advance Directives Among Asian AmericansHaving an Advance Directive (AD) can help to guide medical decision-making. Asian Americans (AA) are less likely than White Americans to complete an AD. This pilot study investigated the feasibility and efficacy of a church-based intervention to increase knowledge and behavior change related to AD among Chinese and Vietnamese Americans. This study utilized a single group pre- and post-intervention design with 174 participants from 4 churches. Domain assessed: demographics; AD-related knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and intentions; AD completion; and conversations with a healthcare proxy. Data were analyzed using Chi square and multiple logistic regression techniques. We observed significant increases in participants' AD-related knowledge, intentions, and a gain in supportive beliefs and attitudes about AD, resulting in 71.8 % AD completion, and 25.0 % having had a proxy conversation. Providing culturally-tailored intervention and step-by-step guidance can help to achieve significant changes in AD related knowledge and behavior in AA church goers.
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Is There Life? Is There Spirit? Debating Belief and Being a Good Christian in Watchman Nee’s ‘Little Flock’Christian, especially Protestant, identity is often framed through the lens of belief, particularly belief understood as an interior orientation. Through an examination of the non-denominational Protestant group, the ‘Little Flock’, founded by Watchman Nee in the early 20th century, we trace enduring aspects of Little Flock theology in contemporary Chinese Protestant practice. In particular, we attend to conceptions of and debates surrounding belief and how to determine the quality of one’s faith—whether or not one might be considered not just a Christian, but a ‘good’ one.
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China's Christians : The Vanguard of Democratic Reform?Description to be added
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Migraciones, religiones y derecho: la tradición de la Iglesia siria oriental «nestoriana» (siglos V-XXI)Religious regimes of normativity, pertaining to non-catholic traditions of Christianity, which are particular to the history of Asia, where they originated and throve between late antiquity and early modern age, provide a powerful testimony as to social, legal and cultural entanglements that cannot be acknowledged nor understood from the binary vision of the Kulturkampf between the “East” and the “West”. Case in point: the tradition of the “Nestorian” Church of the East, with its early spread eastward, from Mesopotamia and Persia to India and China, through all of Central Asia, long before the catholic and protestant missions of the late Middle Ages and the modern age (14th to 19th centuries), defies the paradigms of postcolonial analysis. Legal and liturgical multilingual documents and monuments of the Church of the East—born from the persecution of the followers of Nestorius and Theodore of Mopsuestia under the Roman rule, established in Eastern Mesopotamia as a self-standing denomination under the katholikós, since 410—, reflect an original and autonomous Christian culture, risen from heresy, independent from any papal or imperial agenda. Its bodies of theological doctrines and liturgical formularies, particularly its legal texts, reveal a transnational, non-exclusively confessional mindset, open to hybridization. Likewise, the legal and liturgical system of the Church of the East, developed over eight centuries through migrations, commerce, missional and literary activity (writing and translations) along the Silk Roads trade and knowledge network, provided governance and justice for Christians (and also non-Christians) belonging to many peoples in diverse territories. Built with a communal rather than institutional outreach, the tradition of “Nestorian” Christianity is a genuinely “Eastern” one. It survives among us, confirmed and reinforced in its jurisdictional and pastoral structures, but also misinterpreted and misplaced, as to its role in the context of the history of Asia. Challenged and hunted, it’s facing oblivion, dispersion and, eventually, annihilation.
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Is there life? Is there spirit? Debating belief and being a good Christian in Watchman Nee’s ‘Little Flock’Funding: This research was funded by the Shanghai Social Science Innovation Research Base, for ‘Research on Transitional Sociology with Chinese Characteristics’.
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Is there life? Is there spirit? Debating belief and being a good Christian in Watchman Nee’s ‘Little Flock’ : ReligionsFunding: This research was funded by the Shanghai Social Science Innovation Research Base, for ‘Research on Transitional Sociology with Chinese Characteristics’.
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Lay Missionary Movement and the Establishment of the Peranakan Chinese Christian Community in West Java 1858-1889The lay missionary movement became characteristic of the Chinese Peranakan identity and community in West Java in the mid-19th century. Lay evangelists played a major role in the formation of Christian Peranakan communities in Indramayu, Cirebon, Batavia, and Bandung. Peranakan communities were formed long before the Dutch mission agency paid attention to the Chinese community. While it is true that pioneers of the Christian Peranakan community first heard the gospel message from Dutch pastors, it does not mean that Chinese churches in West Java were merely a zending heritage. Peranakan lay people were actively spreading the gospel through Bible study groups, discipleship, and their involvement in social issues. Unfortunately, stories that feature lay missionary achievements are often lost in the historical narratives of the church in Indonesia that are written mostly by Dutch historians. Such a lacuna has led to the loss of identity and missional vocation of the lay Chinese Christians as if they were never part of the mission and church history in Indonesia. This article thus attempts to historically examine and rebuild the narrative of the participation of the Chinese laity and see the factors that contribute to the weakening of the lay missionary spirit and their involvement among the Chinese church in West Java today. It is hoped that Chinese churches can once again sense the urgency to resurrect the lay missionary movement in the present age.
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Migrations, Religions and Law: The Tradition of the “Nestorian” Church of the East (5th-21st Centuries)Religious regimes of normativity, pertaining to non-catholic traditions of Christianity, which are particular to the history of Asia, where they originated and throve between late antiquity and early modern age, provide a powerful testimony as to social, legal and cultural entanglements that cannot be acknowledged nor understood from the binary vision of the Kulturkampf between the “East” and the “West”. Case in point: the tradition of the “Nestorian” Church of the East, with its early spread eastward, from Mesopotamia and Persia to India and China, through all of Central Asia, long before the catholic and protestant missions of the late Middle Ages and the modern age (14th to 19th centuries), defies the paradigms of postcolonial analysis. Legal and liturgical multilingual documents and monuments of the Church of the East—born from the persecution of the followers of Nestorius and Theodore of Mopsuestia under the Roman rule, established in Eastern Mesopotamia as a self-standing denomination under the katholikós, since 410—, reflect an original and autonomous Christian culture, risen from heresy, independent from any papal or imperial agenda. Its bodies of theological doctrines and liturgical formularies, particularly its legal texts, reveal a transnational, non-exclusively confessional mindset, open to hybridization. Likewise, the legal and liturgical system of the Church of the East, developed over eight centuries through migrations, commerce, missional and literary activity (writing and translations) along the Silk Roads trade and knowledge network, provided governance and justice for Christians (and also non-Christians) belonging to many peoples in diverse territories. Built with a communal rather than institutional outreach, the tradition of “Nestorian” Christianity is a genuinely “Eastern” one. It survives among us, confirmed and reinforced in its jurisdictional and pastoral structures, but also misinterpreted and misplaced, as to its role in the context of the history of Asia. Challenged and hunted, it’s facing oblivion, dispersion and, eventually, annihilation.
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Christian liturgy : a Chinese catechism of celebratingCatechism is often perceived as the teaching of old-fashioned doctrines of faith or an authoritarian list of what religious leaders force us to believe. This catechism is a survival package of food called faith. It is fresh water from the source for the daily path of life and for orientation in decision-making. These four volumes of Chinese Catechisms transform the classical core texts of the Christian faith into today's living: the Creed (Vol. 1), the Lord's Prayer (Vol. 2), the Ten Commandments (Vol. 3), and the Liturgy as celebration of Life (Vol. 4). The author You Bin from Beijing offers it from a Chinese perspective as a contribution to intercultural theology. It is a gift to world Christianity and humanity. It is not a Lutheran, Reformed, Catholic, or Anglican Catechism; it is a post-denominational window for living. In this volume 4, the Lord's Prayer is interpreted from a Chinese background and wisdom. Its genius lies in its innovative synthesis of, on the one hand, the liturgy rooted in the ancient rites and traditions of China and, on the other, the ancient traditions of the Church in an ecumenical spirit.
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Cultural hybridization in christian China: The art of cloisonné at the service of GodProducción Científica
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Orta Asya’da Nestûrî Türklere ait mezar taşları ve kitabeler (XIII. ve XIV. yüzyıllar)Tarih boyunca Orta Asya coğrafyasında bulunan Türkler arasında birçok din kabul görmüş, Nestûrî Hristiyanlık inancı da bu kapsamda Orta Asya’da bulunan bazı Türk toplulukları tarafından benimsenmiştir. Hristiyanlığın Nestûrî mezhebini benimsemiş olan Türk topluluklarından günümüze ulaşan bazı arkeolojik ve epigrafik materyaller, araştırmacılara bu toplulukların dinî yaşamları hakkında fikir sahibi olma imkânını vermektedir. Bu açıdan söz konusu birincil kaynaklar, Nestûrî Türklerin dinî inancı hakkında bilgiye ulaşma konusunda kılavuz olma niteliği taşımaktadır. Tez çalışmamızının konusunu XIII. ve XIV. yüzyıllarda Orta Asya’da ve Çin’de yaşamış Nestûrî Türklere ait mezar taşları ve kitabeler teşkil etmektedir. Çalışmada güdülen amaç, bugüne kadar araştırmacılar tarafından bilim dünyasına kazandırılmış olan Süryani harfli mezar taşlarının toplu bir tetkikinin yapılmasıdır. Bu tez çalışmasında öncelikle tarihsel süreçte Orta Asya coğrafyasında Nestûrî Hristiyanlık inancının yayılması ve mezar taşlarının keşfedilme süreçleri hakkında ön bilgi verilmiş, sözü edilen inancın etkisiyle XIII. ve XIV. yüzyıllara ait Süryani alfabesi ile yazılmış Süryanice ve Türkçe mezar taşları transliterasyon (yazı çevirim) metodu kullanılarak toplu halde incelenmiştir. Çalışma içerisinde incelenen 871 adet mezar taşı tarihli, tarihsiz ve yazısız olacak şekilde ilgili coğrafyanın başlığı altında tasnif edilmiştir. Yayımlanmış mezar taşları Türkçe tercümeleriyle birlikte bir araya getirilmiş ve Orta Asya’da varlık göstermiş Nestûrî Türklerin XIII. ve XIV. yüzyıllardan günümüze ulaşan mezar taşları ile kitabelerinin müstakil bir derlemesi yapılmıştır.
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Han Christian Conversion in Taiwan: A Study of Presbyterian Converts from Traditional Chinese ReligionsDegree awarded: Ph.D. Religion and Culture. The Catholic University of America
