Catholicism's encounters with China
Subtitle: 17th to 20th century
By: Alexandre Chen Tsung-min (ed.).
Contributors: Ferdinand Verbiest Institute
Series: Leuven Chinese Studies -- XXIX; Louvain Chinese studies -- XXIX.
Publisher: Ferdinand Verbiest Institute
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Leuven [Belgium]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9789492768032
Subjects: Missions; Church history; Catholic Church
Description: This book is the fruit of our 12th International Verbiest Symposium in 2015. It includes 21 papers on various aspects of the history of Chinese Catholicism: missions, science, linguistics, philosophy, theology, medicine, architecture, archaeology and music. These papers, all in English, cover the period from the 16th to 20th century. This book is divided in two parts: Catholic Missions in China Previous to the 19th Century and Chinese Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Catholic missions in China previous to the 19th century. F. Verbiest Ingegniere between Sabatino de Ursis and Claudio Filippo Grimaldi : a re-appraisal / Noël Golvers; title: Hydrotechnical activities of Ferdinand Verbiest S.J. and other Jesuits in China / Albert Koenig; title: Between science and religion : Antoine Thomas (1644-1709, S.J.) and the transmission of the Copernican system during the Kangxi reign / Han Qi; title: Ferdinand Verbiest, Antoine Thomas and the ideas of spreading Christianity into Tartary / Davor Antonucci; title: The Xi Ru Er Mu Zi (1626) in the eyes of ht eChinese literates : an account of the reception of Western knowledge in China / Xie Mingguang; title: Nicolas Trigault and the martyrs of Japan / Claudia von Collani; title: Belgian Jesuits in the production and circulation of knowledge about Ming-Qing China / Ronnie Hsia Po-Chia; title: The theological background of the Chinese Rites controversy / Gianni Criveller P.I.M.E.; title: Jacob Golius and Martino Martini : the enlightening encounter and the Additamentum / Luisa Paternicò; title: François de Rougemont's collection of medical recipes / Oana Baboi; title: pt. 2. Chines Catholicism in the 19th and 20th centuries. The conflict and control of the Shanghai local church in the 1840's / Ku Weiying; title: A martyr and a hero : political ideologies and religious experiences in modern China / Xiang Hongyan; title: The hidden fruits of a deserted land : a new look at missionaries' struggles for the administration of Mongolia and Manchuria in the mid-nineteenth century / Pierre-Emmanuel Roux; title: Msgr Jerome Van Aertselaer, C.IC.M., 1845-1924 : from an African seminary to a Chinese college in Leuven / Patrick Taveirne C.I.C.M.; title: The spread and distribution of Catholicism beyond the Great Wall (1860s-1940s) : based on analysis of GIS / Zhuang Hongzhong & Maarten Loopmans; title: Missionary builders : Scheut Fathers as church desigers and constructors in northern China / Thomas Coomans and Luo Wei; title: The Scheutists' contributions to archeological research of Emile Licent and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in northern China / Alexandre Chen Tsung-ming; title: Spreading social welfare and Cathollicism : social welfare Tientsin and its Catholic news in 1920s China / Chang Ching-yin; title: Lebbe and Fraser : an indigenous Chinese church / Raymond L. O'Toole S.F.M.; title: The legacy of Bishop James Edward Walsh of Maryknoll (1891-1981) / Peter Barry M.M.; title: Religious texts set to secular tunes : from François de Rougemont's "Cantiones Rusticae" to Chinese Catholic Hymnals of the late 19th and early 20th century / Lionel Hong Li-Xing.