New Religion (9)—Evangelists Abroad

A year ago on Round and Square (8 May 2012)—Flowers Bloom: Shakespeare's Politics
Click here for the introduction to this series of "Religion in Modern China" posts.

[a] Sacred mountain of the west (華山/华山) RL

My new (weekly) column on the UK website "New Religion—Religion, Politics, Analysis" is up. This week, we leave the world of yin-yang, five-phase cosmology and put our feet back on solid ground. William Edgar Geil (1865-1925) treks through Africa, the south Pacific, down the Yangzi River, along the Great Wall of China, and up-and-down the five sacred mountains. Mr. Geil wouldn't have gotten very far down any of these paths without the help of missionaries who knew the language, local customs, and all sorts of things that, well, he didn't. How did they get there? That's what this column is all about.
 

New Religion: Evangelists Abroad

[b] Geil (Africa, 1903) DHS

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