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Christianity in the Chinese society: Impact, interaction and inculturation by MONICA ROMANO Gregorian Centre for Interreligious Studies
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conference on “Christianity in China. Impact, Interaction and Inculturation” took place at the Pontifical Gregorian University on 22-23 March 2018. Organized by the Faculty of Missiology, with the support of the Yuan Dao Study Center and the Gregorian University Foundation, it gathered scholars, experts and religious leaders from China, Hong Kong and countries in Europe and the United States. Christianity has gone through a process of “adaptation”, “sinicization” and incultur-
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ation over its long time in China. Particularly from the 17th century onwards, “written, social and ritual expressions” started to be sinicized – noted Prof. Benoit Vermander, SJ (Fudan University). Native preachers, a peaceful relationship between Christians and non-Christians, emphasis on forgiveness, Catholic institutions, and the indigenization of art and architecture contributed to the inculturation of faith – Prof. Jean-Paul Wiest (University of Washington) highlighted. Dr. Monica Romano (Pontifical Gregorian University) explained that missionaries and later Chinese people contributed to a process of textual sinicization following the
