China's Church Divided Bishop Louis Jin and the Post-Mao Catholic Revival
China's Church Divided Bishop Louis Jin and the Post-Mao Catholic Revival | 3.8 MB
Title: China's Church Divided
Author: Paul P. Mariani
Category: Nonfiction, History, Asian, China, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Denominations, Catholic, Catholicism, Modern, 20th Century
Language: English | 347 Pages | ISBN: 0674297652
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A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
An illuminating portrait of how Shanghai's Catholic community surged back to life after the Cultural Revolution—and of a Church divided between allegiance to the Vatican and loyalty to the Communist party-state.
During the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese state sought to eradicate religious life throughout the country. But by 1978, two years after the death of Mao Zedong, the Communist Party under Deng Xiaoping cautiously embraced the revival of religion. At the same time, in Rome, the newly elected Pope John Paul II made a point of renewing outreach to China. Paul P. Mariani tracks the fate of Chinese Catholicism in the wake of these transformative leadership changes, focusing on the influential Catholic community in Shanghai.
Even as Chinese Catholicism came back to life in the 1980s, the way forward was hardly an easy one. Earlier policies of the 1950s had fractured the Catholic community into a...
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A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
An illuminating portrait of how Shanghai's Catholic community surged back to life after the Cultural Revolution—and of a Church divided between allegiance to the Vatican and loyalty to the Communist party-state.
During the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese state sought to eradicate religious life throughout the country. But by 1978, two years after the death of Mao Zedong, the Communist Party under Deng Xiaoping cautiously embraced the revival of religion. At the same time, in Rome, the newly elected Pope John Paul II made a point of renewing outreach to China. Paul P. Mariani tracks the fate of Chinese Catholicism in the wake of these transformative leadership changes, focusing on the influential Catholic community in Shanghai.
Even as Chinese Catholicism came back to life in the 1980s, the way forward was hardly an easy one. Earlier policies of the 1950s had fractured the Catholic community into a...
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