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Finding God in All Things: Indirect Evangelization and Acculturation of Université l’Aurore in Modern China

Mingzhe Zhu

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The current literature on Christian mission universities in Modern China (1840–1949) pays specific attention to their efforts to adapt to the intellectual and political context of their time. Through extensive archival works, we contribute to this research orientation by documenting the academic activities of the first Catholic university in China, Université l’Aurore (1903–1952) in Shanghai. Established and managed by the French Jesuits, Université l’Aurore exemplified the mission’s tradition of evangelization through science education. Its pedagogical arrangements, selection of teachers, and moral education showed high levels of professionalism and almost no religious influence. The Jesuits, who took as their motto, “to find God in all things”, believed that their scientific excellence could indirectly promote the Catholic spirit among future Chinese intellectuals and elites. Thanks to their strategy of indirect evangelization, not only did Université l’Aurore survive in a period when the government imposed draconic restrictions on mission entities in the name of “educational sovereignty”, it also contributed to the modernization of China’s education and society.

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hal-04005276 , version 1 (26-02-2023)

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Yi Ren, Mingzhe Zhu. Finding God in All Things: Indirect Evangelization and Acculturation of Université l’Aurore in Modern China. Religions, 2023, 14 (2), pp.199. ⟨10.3390/rel14020199⟩. ⟨hal-04005276⟩
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