China and the true Jesus : charisma and organization in a Chinese Christian Church
Title:
China and the true Jesus : charisma and organization in a Chinese Christian Church
Author:
Inouye, Melissa Wei-Tsing. author.
ISBN:
9780190923464
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
xv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
1. Missionaries in the Machau City (1864-1905) -- 2. A smaller, bigger world (1905-1917) -- 3. The first and last day ( 1917-1922) -- 4. The three lives of Deaconess Yang (1922-1932) -- 5. Four governments in China ( 1932-1949) -- 6. Saving comrade Stalin's soul (1949-1958) -- 7. The handwritten hymnbook (1958-1974) -- 8. Don't be like the gentiles (1974-present) -- 9. The parable of the cursed chicken (1974- present).
Abstract:
The True Jesus Church was China's first major native Christian denomination and one of the earliest expressions of the charismatic and Pentecostal tradition that now dominates Chinese Christianity. Founded in 1917, after a silk merchant had a vision of Jesus, the Church was characterized by dramatic healings, exorcisms, tongues-speaking, and a call for a return to authentic Christianity that challenged the Western missionary establishment in China. In this history of the True Jesus Church, Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye links together key themes from modern Chinese social history to tell the story of how members of the True Jesus Church in China over the past century have sought to muster divine and human resources to transform their world.
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-375) and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 10802253 BR1644.5 C6 I56 ysh