Basel Mission and Revolutions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century China: Debating Societal Renewal
This article analyzes how the Basel missionaries interpreted the nineteenth- and twentieth-century revolutionary changes in China. After a short historical overview, it assesses the different aspects and roots of what implicitly constituted the political theology of the Basel Mission. In the body pa...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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| In: |
Mission studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 7-30 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Basler Mission
/ Taiping rebellion
/ Riot
/ History 1847-1949
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| RelBib Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBM Asia KDD Protestant Church RJ Mission; missiology |
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Basel Mission
history of the Basel Mission
Christianity in China
Mission in China
Taiping Rebellion
Theodor Hamberg
mission movement and politics
political theology
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| Summary: | This article analyzes how the Basel missionaries interpreted the nineteenth- and twentieth-century revolutionary changes in China. After a short historical overview, it assesses the different aspects and roots of what implicitly constituted the political theology of the Basel Mission. In the body part of the essay it analyzes documents written by missionaries (letters, reports written to the home committee) to understand how the missionaries saw the epochal changes that they witnessed: the Taiping Rebellion in the nineteenth century and the political changes taking place between 1911–1949. A final section considers how timely the past Basel missionaries’ political views are in present-day China and how they are reflected in parts of recent Chinese political theology. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Contains: | In: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341545 |