Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies
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19th century british history
19th century protestant missionary
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Author_Eric Reinders
borrowed gods and foreign bodies
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china
chinese religion
chinese ritual
christian
christian missionaries
christianity
cultural studies
dualism of the self
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eric reinders
inscrutable
interdisciplinary
kow tow
mind body dualism
physical foreignness
religion
religious
religious experiences
religious identity
representations of china
ritual language
the other
victorian culture
victorian history
Product details
- ISBN 9780520241718
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2004
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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To the Victorians, the Chinese were invariably "inscrutable." The meaning and provenance of this impression--and, most importantly, its workings in nineteenth-century Protestant missionary encounters with Chinese religion--are at the center of Eric Reinders's Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies, an enlightening look at how missionaries' religious identity, experience, and physical foreignness produced certain representations of China between 1807 and 1937. Reinders first introduces the imaginative world of Victorian missionaries and outlines their application of mind-body dualism to the dualism of self and other. He then explores Western views of the Chinese language, especially ritual language, and Chinese ritual, particularly the kow-tow. His work offers surprising and valuable insight into the visceral nature of the Victorian response to the Chinese--and, more generally, into the nineteenth-century Western representation of China.
Eric Reinders is Assistant Professor of Religion at Emory University.
