Narratives of Religious Landscape
Reading Gender and Chinese Buddhism in the Travel Writing of Christian Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16902007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Baycroft (University of Saskatchewan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1062 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13111062 |
| OpenAlex | W4308200616 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
This article explores the narrative descriptions of the Chinese religious landscape embedded within nineteenth century Christian missionary writings. I demonstrate the potential use of Protestant missionary writings as sources in the academic study of religion in China for both the physical descriptions of religious places that they contain and the narratives they express regarding the religious activities and identities of Chinese women. Of particular interest to this study are the religious encounters experienced between Christian and Buddhist women. My analysis of the travel writings of three Protestant women, Eliza Bridgeman (1805–1871), Helen Nevius (1833–1910), and Isabelle Williamson (d. 1886), illustrates that Chinese women were highly active within sacred spaces across China. This article contributes to discourses on the history of women and Chinese Buddhism, offers historiographical insights into the origins of Western academic studies of Buddhism in China, and provides alternate source material for information about religious continuity and change in early modern China
Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · China · Historiography · Literature · Narrative · Protestantism · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces
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| Highly cited | No |