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Songs of the Lisu Hills - Practicing Christianity in Southwest China (Paperback)
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Songs of the Lisu Hills - Practicing Christianity in Southwest China (Paperback)
Series: World Christianity
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The story of how the Lisu of southwest China were evangelized one
hundred years ago by the China Inland Mission is a familiar one in
mission circles. The subsequent history of the Lisu church,
however, is much less well known. Songs of the Lisu Hills brings
this history up to date, recounting the unlikely story of how the
Lisu maintained their faith through twenty-two years of government
persecution and illuminating how Lisu Christians transformed the
text-based religion brought by the missionaries into a faith
centered around an embodied set of Christian practices. Based on
ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, this volume
documents the development of Lisu Christianity, both through larger
social forces and through the stories of individual believers. It
explores how the Lisu, most of whom remain subsistence farmers,
have oriented their faith less around cognitive notions of belief
and more around participation in a rhythm of shared Christian
practices, such as line dancing, attending church and festivals,
evangelizing, working in one another’s fields, and singing
translated Western hymns. These embodied practices demonstrate how
Christianity developed in the mountainous margins of the world’s
largest atheist state. A much-needed expansion of the Lisu story
into a complex study of the evolution of a world Christian
community, this book will appeal to scholars working at the
intersections of World Christianity, anthropology of religion,
ethnography, Chinese Christianity, and mission studies.
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