TY - JOUR
T1 - Be Pious and Patriotic
T2 - A Comparison of Chinese Christian and Muslim Teaching on Just War in the Early Stage of the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1941
AU - Kwok, Wai Luen
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the General Research Fund of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. Funding number: 12403714.
This work was supported by Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee, Hong Kong: [Grant Number 12403714].
Publisher copyright:
© 2020 University of Birmingham.
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - This article will reconstruct how Chinese Christians and Muslims, as civilians, sought a sense of justice in the midst of war through their religious discourses in their magazines, The True Light Review and Yue Hua. It will firstly analyse the particular situation that Christianity and Islam in China faced in 1930s and will compare their characteristics in terms of hermeneutics of their respective sacred texts and the strategy of linking up social circumstance and religious thought. It will study how Yue Hua understood the Japanese aggression through the lens of the Islamic revival movement, focusing particularly on how it argued that Japanese pan-Asianism was not an option for the Islamic revival movement in China. With regard to The True Light Review, it will analyse how the Baptist pacifist position changed during the war and how the writers in the semi-occupied Shanghai International Settlement interpreted their religious teaching to understand the war of resistance as a just war. It will argue that linking literary creativity with deep spiritual piety and solidarity for compatriots is the key to differentiating the use of religious discourse as a mere political tool from religious political discourse.
AB - This article will reconstruct how Chinese Christians and Muslims, as civilians, sought a sense of justice in the midst of war through their religious discourses in their magazines, The True Light Review and Yue Hua. It will firstly analyse the particular situation that Christianity and Islam in China faced in 1930s and will compare their characteristics in terms of hermeneutics of their respective sacred texts and the strategy of linking up social circumstance and religious thought. It will study how Yue Hua understood the Japanese aggression through the lens of the Islamic revival movement, focusing particularly on how it argued that Japanese pan-Asianism was not an option for the Islamic revival movement in China. With regard to The True Light Review, it will analyse how the Baptist pacifist position changed during the war and how the writers in the semi-occupied Shanghai International Settlement interpreted their religious teaching to understand the war of resistance as a just war. It will argue that linking literary creativity with deep spiritual piety and solidarity for compatriots is the key to differentiating the use of religious discourse as a mere political tool from religious political discourse.
KW - Chinese Christians
KW - Chinese Muslims
KW - justice
KW - theological hermeneutics
KW - war
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090224557&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09596410.2020.1812250
DO - 10.1080/09596410.2020.1812250
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85090224557
SN - 0959-6410
VL - 31
SP - 287
EP - 306
JO - Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
JF - Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
IS - 3
ER -