Gods of the Lump
Gods of the Lump
This chapter focuses on the metaphor of the body used by Western missionaries to describe the Chinese people. It explains that missionary accounts of Chinese practicing their religion were described as crowds of materialists absorbed in the world of their bodily senses and even the vigor of Chinese religious practices was explained as sensual, materialistic, and herd-like. The Chinese were imagined by Westerners as captives of their senses, addicted to their sensuality, obsessed with their worldly desires.
Keywords: Chinese people, metaphor, Western missionaries, religion, materialists, bodily senses, religious practices, sensuality
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