What is it about?
Kilcourse's book uses insights from World Christianity to reveal the explicitly Christian identity of the Taiping movement.
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Why is it important?
By taking seriously the Christian self-identification of the Taipings, Kilcourse offers convincing revisions of many commonly understood aspects of the Taipings, such as their revolutionary motivation and their supposed egalitarianism.
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This page is a summary of: Taiping Theology: The Localization of Christianity in China, 1843–64
Carl S. Kilcourse
London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 xvii + 281 pp. £66.99; $100.00 ISBN 978-1-137-54314-1, The China Quarterly, June 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0305741017000819.
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