Making Catholicism Chinese the Catholic Church in a modernizing China Catholic Church in a modernizing China Wong, Stephanie M. creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. nyu 2025 monographic eng remote 1 online resource : illustrations, maps 'Making Catholicism Chinese' examines a little-known chapter of Catholic life in China, when a coalition of foreign-born and Chinese Catholics strove to make the Church indigenously 'Chinese'. It demonstrates how the indigenization movement, begun as a bid to render Catholicism a Chinese religion, came to support Chinese state-building instead. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- PART 1 Setting the Stage -- 1 Catholic Witness and Chinese Religion in Republican Era China -- A Vignette from the Death of Vincent Lebbe: Bishops, Generals, and Newspaper Tycoons -- The Argument -- Chinese Religiosity: A Historical Claim -- Chinese Religiosity: A Theological Claim -- 2 Transnational, National, and Local: Catholicism in Semi-Colonized China -- The Context: Catholic Witness in Times of Change -- The Transnational Scope: Foreign Imperialism and the Rise in Papal Diplomacy The First Stage of Globalization: Administrative Ambitions, but Loose Control -- The Second Phase of Globalization: Military and Legal Imperialism -- A Third Phase of Globalization: "Soft Power" -- The National Scope: The Chinese Nationalism and the Chinese Church -- Anti-Imperialist Nationalism -- Ethnic Nationalism -- Progressive Nationalism -- The Local Scope: Chinese Religious Life and State Control -- Conclusion -- Part 2 Making the Church Chinese -- 3 The Early Life of Vincent Lebbe -- Priest and Patriot -- Childhood -- Lazarist Formation: The Modernist/Integralist Controversy The Boxer Uprising and Lebbe's Opportunity to Go to China -- Initial Ministry in China -- The Campaign for a Chinese Church (1906-1926) -- The Tianjin Method -- Catholic Journalism -- Opposing the French Religious Protectorate -- The Campaign for the Chinese Episcopate -- 4 A Church Like Any Other-Lobbying for a Chinese Episcopate -- The Question of Chinese Bishops -- The Strategy: Appealing to the Holy See -- The Stages: Petitioning for Chinese Bishops -- The Argument: Regularizing the Chinese Church -- The Opposition: Doubts About a Chinese Church -- Conclusion: The Chinese Bishops 5 Race and the Local Church: Theological Analysis -- An Ecclesial Fight -- Context: The Rise of Modern Racial Theories -- The Explicitly Racist Opposition to the Chinese Episcopate -- The Universalist Opposition to the Chinese Episcopate -- Fears of Xenophobia -- Nationalism -- Raising Up Saints: Lebbe's Case for the Chinese Church -- The purpose of the Church is to cultivate saints -- The Chinese Are Capable of Religious Virtue -- China Has Historically Already Produced Saints -- The Church Must Cultivate Saints in Both Death and Life -- Theological Assessment Part 3 The Church in Service of Nation -- 6 The Later Life of Vincent Lebbe -- Abbot and General -- Return to a Divided China -- Chinese "Catholic Action" -- Monastic-Apostolic Foundations -- Mobilizing in Defense of China -- Military Service Under the United Front -- Lebbe's Supervisory Service Corps -- Lebbe's Last Days and Death -- 7 A Church for Chinese Culture: Shaping Aesthetics -- Catholic Hopes for New China -- Catholic Higher Education: Integrating Science, Humanities, and Arts -- Catholic Popular Media: Inculturating Architecture and Catechisms -- Conclusion Specialized. specialized Stephanie M. Wong. Includes bibliographical references and index. a-cc--- Lebbe, Vincent 1877-1940 Catholic Church China History 20th century Catholic Church History 20th century Église catholique Histoire 20e siècle Religion and politics China History 20th century Religion et politique Chine Histoire 20e siècle China Asia HISTORY Catholic Christianity RELIGION Missions Christian Ministry Religion and politics History China 1900-1999 fast BX1665 .W6 2025 282.5109041 9780197623725 0197623727 9780197623718 0197623719 9780197623701 0197623700 9780197623695 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/61683 STBDS 251107 20260319210726.8 in00005728930 eng