{"product_id":"from-trustworthiness-to-secular-beliefs-changing-concepts-of-xin-xin-from-traditional-to-modern-chinese-9789004532991","title":"From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs: Changing Concepts of xin 信 from Traditional to Modern Chinese","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does the Chinese term xin 信 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 to use the term regularly as a translation for the concept of believing in gods or God?     This volume offers a broad picture of the semantic history of this Chinese term, throwing light on its semantic multi-layeredness shaped by changing discursive contexts, interactions between various ideological milieus, and transcultural encounters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Contributors    Introductory Part: Western, Chinese, and Global Genealogies of Faith and xin  1 Introduction   Christian Meyer and Philip Clart    2 An Overview: a Short Genealogy of Faith in the Western History of Philosophy and Theology and a Chinese Perspective   Jiang Manke    Part 1: Setting the Stage: Traditional Uses in Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist Contexts  3 A Trustworthy Companion: xin 信 as Component Term in Early  Chinese Texts   Joachim Gentz    4 A Linguistic Analysis of the Different Functions of xin and Their Historical Development from Late Archaic to Middle Chinese   Barbara Meisterernst    5 An Inquiry into Conceptions of xin 信 in Early Medieval Daoism   Friederike Assandri    6 The Concept of Faith in Chinese Buddhist Scriptures   Tam Wai Lun    7 Japanese Buddhist Concepts of Faith (shin 信): the Postmodern Narrative of the Conceptual Hegemony of Western Modernity Reconsidered   Christoph Kleine    8 Convinced by Amazement—Creating Buddhist xin 信 (Belief\/Trust) in the Biographies of Thaumaturge Monks (T. 2064)   Esther-Maria Guggenmos    9 Xin in Morality Books: An Overview   Vincent Goossaert    Part 2: Early Channels of Transfer: Monotheistic Uses of the Term xin from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Century  10 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    11 Xin 信 in the Early Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian Community   Nicolas Standaert    12 Theology, Ethics and Textual Sensitivity: the Multiple Notions of xin 信 in Chinese-Islamic Texts   Dror Weil    Part 3: From the Christian Milieu to the Entry into the General  Lexicon of Modern Chinese: Late-Qing to Republican Uses and the Role of Japan  13 Negotiating between Chinese Religious Beliefs and Christian Faith: Timothy Richard’s (1845–1919) Understanding of “Faith”\/xin 信 and Approach to Comparative Religion   Thomas Jansen    14 From Missionary Doctrine to Chinese Theology: Developing xin 信 in the Protestant Church and the Creeds of Zhao Zichen   Chloë Starr    15 Shin 信 as a Marker of Identity in Modern Japanese Buddhism   Hans Martin Krämer    16 The (New) Buddhist Semantics of xin 信 in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Arguments from China and Taiwan   Stefania Travagnin    17 Religious Concepts and Evolutionary Theory in the Early Thought  of Liang Qichao: from “Religion” via “Faith” to the “View of Death  and Life”   Thomas Fröhlich    18 From Universal Faith to Religious Experience: Usages of xin in Early Chinese Religious Studies (zongjiaoxue)   Christian Meyer    19 “Our Believing in the Three People’s Principles Requires a Religious Spirit”: xin (yang) and the Political Religion of the Guomindang, 1925–1949   Thoralf Klein    20 Belief in the Dao, or Knowledge of the Truth? Contested Interpretations of “Xin\/Xinyang” in Yiguandao Discourses   Nikolas Broy    Part 4: Contemporary Usages in Special and Everyday Language Discourses in Mainland China and Taiwan  21 Xin in the Discourse on Conversion among Tzuchians in Shanghai   Huang Weishan    22 The Role of “Confidence” in the Gender Discourse of Buddhist Nuns*  in Contemporary Mainland China: Learning xinxin 信心 to Become a  Masculine Hero   Johanna Lüdde    23 Giving Credit Where Its Due: Thanksgiving as Performance of Belief in Chinese Popular Religion   Adam Yuet Chau    24 What China Is Missing—Faith in Political Discourse   Gerda Wielander    25 Epilogue: Reflections and Theses on the Semantic History of xin  and Faith   Christian Meyer","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210859110743,"sku":"9789004532991","price":195.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-trustworthiness-to-secular-beliefs-changing-concepts-of-xin-xin-from-traditional-to-modern-chinese-9789004532991","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}