ASNS2627 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Chinese Folk Religion, Folk Religion, Phenylalanine

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

Document Summary

Week 7: chinese popular religion 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. More importantly (at least from a secular point of view), they brought modern ideas and techniques to these societies and managed thereby to deeply influence them. That remained important in europe was the conversion to civilized (bourgeois) christian- ity of the other half, the poor, unemployed, or otherwise mar- ginal elements in society by movements like the salvation.