The Catholic Church in Taiwan

The Catholic Church in Taiwan
Author: Francis K.H. So
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2017-12-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811066655

This book provides a ground breaking interdisciplinary study of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, focusing on the post 1949 Civil War in China through to the present day, and discusses the role played by the Catholic Church in contemporary Taiwanese society. It considers the situation of the Catholic church of Taiwan during the Japanese Occupation, Taiwan-Vatican Relations from 1949 onwards and triangular Relations among the Vatican, Taiwan and China during Tsai Ing-wen’s Administration. Written from a wide range of perspectives, from history and international relations to literature, philosophy, and education, this volume offers an important perspective on the birth and development of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, contributing a key work to religious studies in the Greater China Region.

The Catholic Church in Taiwan

The Catholic Church in Taiwan
Author: Francis K.H. So
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2017-12-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 981106668X

This book provides a key analysis of the development of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, and considers the challenges it faces in contemporary times. It examines how the 1949 revolution in Mainland China brought a great number of Chinese intellectuals to Taiwan and provided the Taiwan Catholic Church with valuable human asset for theological and liturgical indigenization. This volume considers different aspects of the development of the Taiwan Catholic Church in the context of indigenization, and examines how the multi-faceted aspects of Catholicism in the Taiwan Catholic Church are revealed through history, philosophy, social science, linguistics, music and literature.

The Catholic Church in World Politics

The Catholic Church in World Politics
Author: Eric O. Hanson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1400858607

Eric Hanson's multifaceted book examines the place of the church in the contemporary international system and the reciprocal influence of modern political and technological developments on the internal affairs of the church. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

China and Christianity

China and Christianity
Author: Stephen Uhalley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2015-03-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317475011

This collection offers fresh perspectives on Sino-Western cultural relations, with particular regard to the experience of Christianity in China. The contributors include authorities from China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Europe (including Russia and Eastern Europe), and North America.

The Catholic Church in China

The Catholic Church in China
Author: C. Chu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2012-10-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1137075651

This book traces the history of the Catholic Church in China since the country opened up to the world in December 1978. It comprehensively studies the Chinese Catholic Church on various levels, including an analysis of Sino-Vatican relations, the control over the Catholic Church by the Beijing government, the supervision of local Church activities, and the consecration of government-approved bishops, the formation of priests, and the everyday lives of Chinese Catholics.

Place, Alterity, and Narration in a Taiwanese Catholic Village

Place, Alterity, and Narration in a Taiwanese Catholic Village
Author: Marco Lazzarotti
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2020-07-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030434613

This book introduces a simple idea: when we tell a story, we tell a story and at the same time create the world where this story takes place. Narration creates environments, spaces and, in a certain sense, gives symbolic meanings and values to the identities by which people interact in their daily experiences. Set in the multicultural and multireligious Taiwanese environment, this book describes the interactions, and above all the narrations, linked to a Catholic village located in the Taiwanese countryside. Catholicism in Taiwan is a minor religion (around 2% of the population), and considered a foreign and heterodox religion, something different and "other" from the Taiwanese mainstream religious environment. It is this sense of alterity that creates the stories about this place and, as a consequence, creates this place and its special identity.

Footsteps in Deserted Valleys

Footsteps in Deserted Valleys
Author: Koen De Ridder
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789058670229

In this book scholars from different backgrounds discuss and define various aspects, special characteristics and long-range aims of the Christian apostolate in late Qing and early republican China.

The Encyclodedia of Christianity, Vol. 5

The Encyclodedia of Christianity, Vol. 5
Author: Erwin Fahlbusch
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 897
Release: 2008-02-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 080282417X

Written by leading scholars from around the world, the articles in this volume range from sin, Sufism and terrorism to theology in the 19th and 20th centuries, Vatican I and II and the virgin birth.

The Taiwan Question in Xi Jinping’s Era

The Taiwan Question in Xi Jinping’s Era
Author: Suisheng Zhao
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2024-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040157408

Taiwan is one of the flashpoints with the potential to spark a war in East Asia. With the rhetoric of striving for peaceful unification, Xi Jinping has made clear that the Taiwan question is China’s core national interest, making it essentially non-negotiable and important enough to go to war. How has Beijing’s Taiwan policy evolved? What is the support for armed reunification among the Chinese people? And how have Taiwan's internal dynamics and external relations changed in response to Beijing’s evolving policy toward Taiwan? These are crucially important questions that this edited volume delves into and hopes to answer. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese foreign policy, Taiwan studies and cross-Strait relations, Political Science, International Relations as well as Asian politics more generally. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Contemporary China and are accompanied by a new Introduction.