Thirty Years of Mission in Taiwan : The Case of Presbyterian
Missionary George Leslie Mackay

J 2021

Thirty Years of Mission in Taiwan : The Case of Presbyterian Missionary George Leslie Mackay

RYCHETSKÁ, Magdaléna

Základní údaje

Originální název

Thirty Years of Mission in Taiwan : The Case of Presbyterian Missionary George Leslie Mackay

Autoři

RYCHETSKÁ, Magdaléna

Vydání

Religions, Switzerland, 2021, 2077-1444

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60304 Religious studies

Stát vydavatele

Švýcarsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

odkaz na článok

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/21:00121257

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

mission; Taiwan; George Lesley Mackay; From Far Formosa; missionary strategies

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 18. 4. 2022 14:06, doc. Mgr. Jakub Drábik, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The aims of this paper are to analyze the missionary endeavors of the first Canadian Presbyterian missionary in Taiwan, George Leslie Mackay (1844–1901), as described in From Far Formosa: The Islands, Its People and Missions, and to explore how Christian theology was established among and adapted to the Taiwanese people: the approaches that Mackay used and the missionary strategies that he implemented, as well as the difficulties that he faced. Given that Mackay’s missionary strategy was clearly highly successful—within 30 years, he had built 60 churches and made approximately 2000 converts—the question of how he achieved these results is certainly worth considering. Furthermore, from the outset, Mackay was perceived and received very positively in Taiwan and is considered something of a folk hero in the country even today. In the present-day narrative of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, Mackay is seen as someone whose efforts to establish an independent church with native local leadership helped to introduce democracy to Taiwan. However, in some of the scholarship, missionaries such as Mackay are portrayed as profit seekers. This paper seeks to give a voice to Mackay himself and thereby to provide a more symmetrical approach to mission history.

Návaznosti

MUNI/FF-DEAN/0080/2021, interní kód MU

Název: Christianity and authoritarian regime in Chinese societies

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Christianity and authoritarian regime in Chinese societies, Děkanský grant

Citovat

RYCHETSKÁ, Magdaléna. Thirty Years of Mission in Taiwan : The Case of Presbyterian Missionary George Leslie Mackay. Religions. Switzerland, 2021, roč. 12, č. 3, s. 1-22. ISSN 2077-1444. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12030190.

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RYCHETSKÁ, Magdaléna. Thirty Years of Mission in Taiwan : The Case of Presbyterian Missionary George Leslie Mackay. \textit{Religions}. Switzerland, 2021, roč.~12, č.~3, s.~1-22. ISSN~2077-1444. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12030190.

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