Lift High the Cross: The Visual Message of Popular Chinese Christianity
What does popular Chinese Christianity look like? Answers are elusive, because the materials that survive tend to be books and buildings—artifacts that tell us more about the elites who produced them than the average believers who used them. The Center for Global Christianity and Mission’s digitizat...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Sage Publishing
2022
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International bulletin of mission research
Année: 2022, Volume: 46, Numéro: 4, Pages: 474-491 |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Theology
B Espèce B Posters B the cross B Visual Culture B China |
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Résumé: | What does popular Chinese Christianity look like? Answers are elusive, because the materials that survive tend to be books and buildings—artifacts that tell us more about the elites who produced them than the average believers who used them. The Center for Global Christianity and Mission’s digitization of 700 Chinese Christian propaganda posters at ccposters.com offers a rare glimpse into the Christian ideas and images that circulated on the street. Produced between 1920 and 1950, these posters packaged Christianity for mass consumption, and what they offered China was not Jesus Christ but his cross. Popular Christianity was crucicentric, not Christocentric. |
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ISSN: | 2396-9407 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: International bulletin of mission research
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/23969393221097624 |