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After World War I, missionary activity in China faced new problems. These included the deleterious effect of World War I on the world economy and the status of Westerners, the rise of Chinese nationalism as well as banditry, the promotion of skepticism, agnosticism, and evolutionist philosophies by humanist visitors to China such as John Dewey and Bertrand Russell,11 and the formation of the Chinese Anti-Christian Federation in 1922 “on the ground that science and religion were incompatible” and that Christianity, it was claimed, had a hidden political agenda.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:28:16 +0000

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