Cultural naturalization and the Church of the East in China : using interreligious iconography and inscriptions to investigate identity in Yuan China

For well over a century, the Church of the East in China (also known as Nestorian Christianity or Jingjiao) has been commonly regarded as a syncretic sect of Christianity, possibly even adapting itself into oblivion. However, while the original basis for such an assessment is unclear, the actual evi...

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Main Author: Becklin, Eric Robert
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52661