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Author Menegon, Eugenio, 1966-

Title Ancestors, virgins, & friars [electronic resource] : Christianity as a local religion in late Imperial China / Eugenio Menegon.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xx, 450 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Series Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 69
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 69.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-426) and index.
Contents Introduction : "truly unfathomable"? -- Fuan literati, Jesuits, and Spanish friars -- Becoming local : conflict with gods and ancestors, 1634-1645 -- The golden age of opportunity, 1645-1723 -- Suppression and persistence, 1723-1840s -- The Christians of Fuan -- Christian religious fellowship in Mindong : priests, rituals, and lay institutions -- Filial piety, ancestral rituals, and salvation -- Virginity, chastity, and sex -- Conclusion : ruptures : Fuan after the Opium Wars.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject China -- Church history.
China -- Missions -- History.
Christianity -- China.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
Added Title Ancestors, virgins, and friars
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Original 9780674035966 (DLC) 2009037574
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