The Conversion of Missionaries : Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 19071932

Pennsylvania State University Press

The Conversion of MissionariesLiberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 19071932\nAuthor(s): Lian\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271064383, 978-0271064383\nSynopsis\nLike many of her fellow missionaries to China, Pearl Buck found that she was not immune to the influence of her adopted home. In this book Lian Xi tells the story of Buck and two other American missionaries to China in the early twentieth century who gradually came to question, and eventually reject, the evangelical basis of Protestant missions as they developed an appreciation for Chinese religions and culture. Lian Xi uses these stories as windows to understanding the development of a broad theological and cultural liberalism within American Protestant missions.\n\nThe rise of missions in nineteenth-century America was an overflow of America's religious and nationalist spirit. The development of li.