From trustworthiness to secular beliefs: changing concepts of xin 信 from traditional to modern Chinese
"What does the Chinese term xin mean? How does it relate to the concept of faith in a Western sense? How far does it still denote "being trustworthy" in its ancient Confucian sense? When did major shifts occur in its long history of semantics that allowed later Christian missionaries...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
30 Mar 2023
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| Series: | Religion in Chinese societies
volume 19 |
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Religion in Chinese societies (volume 19)
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| DOI: | 10.1163/9789004533004 |
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| Online Access: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004533004 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://brill.com/display/title/63894 Resolving-System, kostenfrei: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004533004 
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| Author Notes: | edited by Christian Meyer, Philip Clart |
Table of Contents:
- An Overview: A Short Genealogy of Faith in the Western History of Philosophy and Theology and a Chinese Perspective / Jiang Manke
- From Trust in the Buddha to the Belief in the One God-xin as a Buddhist, Manichaean and Christian Concept in Early Medieval China / Max Deeg
- Xin in the Discourse on Conversion among Tzuchians in Shanghai / Huang Weishan.