Jingjiao: The Church of the East in China and Central Asia - Roman Malek

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Auteur(s) : Roman Malek

Editeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/08/2021

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 710

Expédition : 1590

Dimensions : 17.9 x 25.4 x 4.3

ISBN : 0367342456

Résumé :

The contributions in this volume were mostly first presented at the conference Research on Nestorianism in China. Zhongguo jingjiao yanjiu ?????? held in Salzburg, 20? 26 May 2003. Like the conference, the volume explores the subject of Nestorianism (jingjiao, Luminous Religion) in a variety of aspects.

Biographie:

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.

Sommaire:

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 Tomiok?s and Takakusu?s Manuscripts. Haned?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 Kejamt?. 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 Hulsew?-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 Sar?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 ?ngg?t 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 Seidenstra?e: 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.