Taking Christianity to China : Alabama missionaries in the middle kingdom, 1850-1950 / Wayne Flynt and Gerald W. Berkley.
Material type: TextPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 424 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585273103
- 9780585273105
- 0817391568
- 9780817391560
- Christianity -- China
- China -- Church history -- 19th century
- China -- Church history -- 20th century
- Missions -- China -- History
- RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions
- Christianity -- China
- Missions -- China -- History
- China -- Church history -- 19th century
- China -- Church history -- 20th century
- Christianity
- Missions
- China
- Zending
- Alabama
- China
- 1800-1999
- 266/.023761051 20
- BR1287 .F58 1997eb
- B979. 2
- 11.59
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-415) and index.
The light of science and revelation: the mission -- You can see all nations here: Alabama culture and the missionary enterprise -- The intense longing of my heart: -- Preparing for China missions -- One of the hardest things I ever undertook: -- First contact with China -- The peculiar customs are so bewildering: -- Understanding Chinese culture -- The best way is to live one day at a time: -- Missionary life in China -- A trip of preaching, healing, and teaching: missionary work -- I was a different person, my girlhood was past: -- Woman consciousness among Alabama missionaries -- Error is propagated along with truth: conflict among Alabama missionaries -- Jesus Christ had nothing to do with the French: -- Missionaries and Chinese politics: -- You who drink the water, do not forget the person who dug the well: -- The legacies of Alabama missionaries in China.
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