Jingjiao

The Church of the East in China and Central Asia
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-34245-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 710 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Collectanea Serica

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malek, Roman

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1. Past and Current Research on Tang Jingjiao Documents: A Survey. Buddhism, Daoism and the Eighth Century Chinese Term for Christianity. A Response to Recent Work by Antonino Forte and Others. Part 2. Parallel Themes in Chinese Nestorianism and Medieval Daoist Religion. The Connection between Jingjiao and Buddhist Texts in Late Tang China. Towards a New Translation of the Chinese Nestorian Documents from the Tang Dynasty. Additional Notes on the Authenticity of Tomioka’s and Takakusu’s Manuscripts. Haneda’s and Saeki’s Editions of the Chinese Nestorian Zhixuan anle jing. A Comment on Recent Work by Lin Wushu. Remnants of Christianity from Chinese Central Asia in Medieval Ages. The Live Style of Nestorian Preachers and Their Cultural Influence on China during the Tang Dynasty. Deuteronomistic Theology in the Text of the Stele of Xi’an. The Impact of Nestorianism on Contemporary Chinese Theology. Part 3. Chinese Nestorianism in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties. Nestorian Inscriptions from China (13th – 14th Centuries). Reexamination of the Nestorian Inscription from Yangzhou. The History of Quanzhou Nestorianism. Nestorian Remains from Zaitun (Quanzhou) South China. A New Nestorian Tombstone from Quanzhou: Epitaph of the Lady Kejamtâ. Some Notes on Past and Present Field Research on Gravestones and Related Stone Material of the Church of the East in Inner Mongolia, China. With 21 Illustrations of the Hulsewé-Wazniewski Project in Inner Mongolia. The Art of the Church of the East in China. A Cup of Cold Water. Folios of a Nestorian-Turkic Manuscript from Kharakhoto. Princess Sara’s Gospel Book. A Syriac Manuscript Written in Inner Mongolia? Sorkaktani Beki: A Prominent Nestorian Woman at the Mongol Court. A Nestorian Tale of Many Cities. The Problem of the Identification of Urban Structures in Önggüt Territory during the Yuan Dynasty according to Chinese and Western Sources. Part 4. The Church of the East in Mesopotamia in the Mongol Period. Christian Crosses from Central Asia. Einige problematische Funde von der Seidenstraße: Novopokrovka IV und V, Issyk-Kul’-Gebiet, Chotan. Caucasian Parallels to Chinese Cross Representations. Survey of Nestorianism and of Ancient Nestorian Architectural Relics in the Iranian Realm. Shirin – Christian Queen of Persia. History and Myth. Vestiges of East Syriac Christianity in India. Part 5. Preliminary Bibliography on the Church of the East in China and Central Asia.

Über Autor(innen)

Roman Malek S.V.D. (1951–2019) was a Sinologist (Ph.D., University of Bonn, 1984; postdoctoral thesis, ibid., 2003) and an expert of religions in China, in particular Daoism and Christianity. He was professor emeritus of history of religions at the Philosophical-Theological Faculty S.V.D. at Sankt Augustin, Germany, and the former director and editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Serica Institute, Sankt Augustin, an academic institution maintained by the Society of the Divine Word. Under his editorship from 1992 to 2012, 20 volumes of the Sinological journal Monumenta Serica and 75 volumes of the Institute’s book series were published, among them many titles on the history of Christianity in China., e.g., on important China missionaries such as Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Ferdinand Verbiest, and Giulio Aleni.