This book is the first to address the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a large collection of fresh sources – including contemporaneous accounts, diaries, memoirs, archival material, and interviews – Lian Xi trace...

It would seem unlikely that one could discover tolerant religious attitudes in Spain, Portugal, and the New World colonies during the era of the Inquisition, when enforcement of Catholic orthodoxy was widespread and brutal. Yet this groundbreaking bo...