European and Chinese Controversies over Rituals
A Seventeenth-Century Genealogy of Chinese Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23197191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eugenio Menegon (0000-0001-6803-5697, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 193-222 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Devising Order (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004240032_011 |
| OpenAlex | W2477405619 |
| ISBN | 9789004240032 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This chapter focuses on some Christian manuscript sources in Chinese and European languages. Missionaries based in China generally understood 'Chinese religion' and 'Chinese rites' not merely through their own European theological categories, but also through the interpretations of Chinese native scholars they interacted with. Through an examination of some Chinese-Christian texts, the author discerns the analytical categories employed by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century missionaries, and observes how European notions and native understanding interacted to produce Christian representations of Chinese religion and Chinese rituality that ultimately were transmitted to Europe. Bolstered in the course of the Chinese Rites controversies, these notions not only linger in scholarship on Chinese culture and history, but continue to underpin much research in the field of ritual studies. Keywords:Chinese culture; Chinese history; Chinese religion; Chinese rites; Chinese rituality; Christian manuscript sources; European theological categories
Asian studies · China · Chinese culture · History of China · Political science · Scholarship · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |