Eric Reinders. Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion.(Book Review) From: China Review International | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Woo, Franklin J. | COPYRIGHT 2005 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Eric Reinders. Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2004. xvi, 266 pp. Hardcover $49.95, ISBN 0-520-24171-1.

In an address to the overseas mission agencies of the major U.S. church denominations more than three decades ago, John King Fairbank (who saw foreign intervention in China as not necessarily a bad thing) claimed that "[t]he American contribution to mod...

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