RT Article
T1 Protestant Missionaries and the Concept of Martyrdom During the Boxer Rebellion
JF Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
VO 84
IS 2
SP 377
OP 392
A1 Perin, Raffaella
LA English
PB Morcelliana
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1677962380
AB The anti-foreigners Boxer Rebellion of summer 1900 provoked the death of about one hundred English Protestant missionaries in the North-East regions of China. Several letters and diaries written by the victims just before dying were soon collected and published in London by the China Inland Mission, conferring to the dead missionaries the title of "martyrs". The analysis of these documents led to a definition of "martyrdom" in the Protestant missionary context between the 19th and 20th century, which highlights the propagandistic value not only of the martyrologies but also of the very martyrial act.
K1 China Inland Mission
K1 Christianity
K1 Martyrdom
K1 Missionaries
K1 Missions
K1 Protestantesimo
K1 Protestantism
K1 Protestants
K1 Reformation
K1 Theology
K1 Martirio
K1 missioni