The Spectacle of Missionary Bodies
The Spectacle of Missionary Bodies
This chapter explores how the foreignness of Western missionaries in China became embodied experiences. It discusses the body problems faces by missionaries and suggests that the most serious problems of inter-cultural interaction were bodily. The most intractable scandal of foreign bodies was the refusal of the missionaries and their converts to bow to the emperor. This chapter also highlights the tensions between the impulse toward the indigenization of the missionaries and their concern that the essential Gospel would be lost or corrupted through careless nativization.
Keywords: Western missionaries, foreignness, China, body problems, inter-cultural interaction, indigenization, nativization
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