ASNS2627 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Peter Van Der Veer, American Anthropological Association, Chinese Folk Religion

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Asian Studies
• Course: ASNS2627
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Film screening of bored in heaven: a film about ritual sensation (ken dean: 80 min. documentary film followed by discussion. *peter van der veer, the modern spirit of asia, ch. Cora dean and kenneth dean, making bored in heaven: a film about ritual sensation , visual anthropology review, vol. Pdf the missionary project in india and china in the nineteenth century , but will emphasize the imperial and anti-imperial aspects. Christian missionaries played an extraordinary role in setting things in motion in education and medicine , but most impor- tantly in anti-imperialist protonationalism within a range of non- christian reform movements. Indians and chinese were quite literally converted to moder- nity by the efforts of missionary christianity, especially in its nineteenth-century. That missionaries often did not succeed in converting large num- bers of. Indians and chinese, although they did convert a rela- tively small minority.