God Worshipping Society
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The God Worshipping Society (拜上帝教) was a heterodox Christian sect founded in 1843 by Hong Xiuquan, Feng Yunshan and Hong Rengan in Hua County (花縣; present-day Huadu District, Guangdong); it soon spread to Guangxi.[1] On the 11th day of the first lunar month of 1851, which was also Hong Xiuquan's birthday, the God Worshipping Society proclaimed the Jintian Uprising against the ruling Qing dynasty, and declared the formation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, thus beginning the Taiping Rebellion, which has been described as the "most gigantic man-made disaster" of the nineteenth century.[2]
References
- ↑ Joseph W. Esherick (June 1998). God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence (review). The China Quarterly 154: 431-432. (subscription required)
- ↑ Philip A. Kuhn (July 1977). Origins of the Taiping Vision: Cross-Cultural Dimensions of a Chinese Rebellion. Comparative Studies in Society and History 19(3): 350-366. (subscription required)
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