God Worshipping Society (拜上帝教)

The God Worshipping Society (Chinese: 拜上帝教, bài shàngdì jiào) was a Chinese syncretist Christian movement, founded and led by Hóng Xiùquán, a convert who had proclaimed himself the second son of God and younger brother of Jesus Christ, which was active in southern China during the mid-nineteenth century, where it established the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace (太平天囯) in opposition to China's ruling Qing dynasty, resulting in a fourteen-year civil war known as the Taiping Rebellion.