Intrapersonal conflict between christianity and homosexuality: the personal effects faced by gay men and lesbians. by Subhi, N., Mohamad, S. M, Sarnon, N, Nen, S., Hoesni, S.M, Khadijah Alavi, Chong, Sheau Tsuey

“…Potential conflict between Christianity and homosexuality is not considered as a totally new phenomenon.Nonetheless, since scarce is known regarding the matter this might assumed the level of intolerance is still high within most traditional western religion including Christianity. A qualitative study of 10 male and 10 female Christian homosexuals was conducted via in-depth semi-structured interviews. …”
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Jesuits as Diplomats in the Service of Chinese Emperors in Early Modern Times by Claudia von Collani

“…Especially during the 17th and 18th centuries some of the Western missionaries bringing Western religion to China also tried to interpret traditional Chinese rituals like the veneration of Confucius and the ancestors in a pejorative way declaring these rites to be superstitious and to forbid them for Chinese Christians. …”
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Missionary’s Envision of Children in Late Qing China: Children’s Education and the Construction of Christian Discourse in Child’s Paper by Ziqi Huang, Haixia Zhao, Fan Yang

“…Moreover, the conversion-education efforts by missionaries also construed helping Chinese children gain a cross-cultural perspective on Western religion, and arguably inspired later Chinese intellectuals’ to create newspapers for the purpose of the pre-primary education of Chinese children.…”
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A psychological study of new age practices and beliefs by Farias, M

“…The New Age, unlike traditional Western religion, possesses no church-like structure and is usually characterised as a loose network of self-development practices, with a belief system centred on the spiritual evolution of the individual through successive reincarnations and the idea of a magical interconnectedness between all things. …”