Study of the Spread of Christianity in Central Asian and China

Although cultural and religious life along the Central Asian Silk Route was determine both by various indigenous traditions, including Christianism, and by the world religions that expanded into this area from India and China as well as from Syria and Persia we can detect certain basic patterns that recur in different areas and situations. Nomads dwelling in the steppes had their own social structures and their own understanding of life, which was determined by tradition that spoke of forefathers and heroes of the past who had created a state with its own divine orders and laws. The Old Turkic inscriptions on the Orkhon river in Mongolia are a good case in point. In the city-states it was not a tribal, but a universal type of religion that determined the life of the people, and of the individual who gained greater prominence in view of his ethnic group. This was not only true of the universal religions, Buddhism, Manichaeism and Nestorian Christianity. The study is divided in three sections. Early Christianity in Iran, The Nestorians In China, Nestorians in Turfan.

کلیدواژه ها:

Central Asian ، China ، Nestorian ، religions ، Turfan