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Making Chengdu “The Kingdom of God as Jesus Conceived It”: The Urban Work of West China Union University's Sociology Department.
- Source :
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Social Sciences & Missions . Aug2010, Vol. 23 Issue 2, p162-186. 25p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- This paper uses the case of West China Union University's Sociology Department as an example to study the mutually beneficial relationships that generally prevailed between Protestant colleges in China and local governments during the Republican era (1912-1949). In most cases, Protestant colleges and local administrations shared a vision of modern urban society that led quite naturally to collaboration. Drawing from modernist theologizing about the city, West China's Sociology Department played an important role both in research on and social work in Chengdu. To theorize this cooperative relationship, this paper takes West China's sociological work as an instrument of globalizing modernity, which was changing the West in many of the same ways as the East. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *KINGDOM of God
*UNIVERSITIES & colleges
*RELIGIOUS schools
*PROTESTANTS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18748937
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Social Sciences & Missions
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 53412449
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1163/187489410X511533