Timothy Richard, World Religion, and Reading Christianity in Buddhist Garb
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12958353 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Adam Scott (0000-0001-8138-0866, Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 53-75 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences and Missions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1874-8945 • E-ISSN: 1874-8937 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/187489412x624284 |
| OpenAlex | W1996246687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article examines some of the published works of the missionary Timothy Richard (1845 - 1919), and analyzes how his mission experience played a foundational role in his study of religion. It argues that his work and his approach to Chinese religions challenged established views of the relationships between the world religions held by his contemporaries. The latter section focuses on his studies of Mahāyāna Buddhism and how they sought a familiar religious revelation clad in foreign clothing. Finally it suggests that his experience might complicate our picture of orientalist scholarship in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Art · Buddhism · China · Christianity · Clothing · Comparative religion · History of religions · Literature · Orientalism · Political science · Reading (process · Revelation · Scholarship · Sociology · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Study and Philosophy of Religion · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |