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From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs : Changing Concepts of xin 信 from Traditional to Modern Chinese

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What does the Chinese term xin 信 mean? How does it relate to the concept of faith in a Western sense? How far does it still denote “being trustworthy” in its ancient Confucian sense? When did major shifts occur in its long history of semantics that allowed later Christian missionaries to use the term regularly as a translation for the concept of believing in gods or God?

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Religion in Chinese Societies, Volume: 19

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Leiden : Brill., 2023

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English

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978-90-04-53300-4

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Asian Studies

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Penyunting, Christian Meyer, Philip Clart

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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004533004

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