Asia in the making of Christianity [electronic resource] conversion, agency, and indigeneity, 1600s to the present / edited by Richard Fox Young and Jonathan A. Seitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Young, Richard Fox.

Seitz, Jonathan A.

Series:

Social sciences in Asia ; Volume 35.

Social Sciences in Asia ; Volume 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian converts--Asia--Biography.

Christian converts.

Asia--Church history.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (466 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, c2013.

Summary:

Drawing on first person accounts, Asia in the Making of Christianity studies conversion in the lives of Christians throughout Asia, past and present. Fifteen contributors treat perennial questions about conversion: continuity and discontinuity, conversion and communal conflict, and the politics of conversion. Some study individuals (An Chunggŭn of Korea, Liang Fa of China, Nehemiah Goreh of India), while others treat ethnolinguistic groups or large-scale movements. Converts sometimes appear as proto-nationalists, while others are suspected of cultural treason. Some transition effortlessly from leadership in one religious community into Christian ministry, while others re-convert to new forms of Christianity. The accounts collected here underscore the complexity of conversion, balancing individual agency with broader social trends and combining micro- with macrocontextual approaches.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Richard Fox Young and Jonathan A. Seitz

Early Christian Conversion in Seventeenth-Century Cochinchina / Nola Cooke

Translating Spirits: Protestants, Possessions, and the Grammars of Conversion in Shandong Province / Richard Burden

Preaching (傳 chuan), Worshipping (拜 bai), and Believing (信 xin): Recasting the Conversionary Process in South China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

Conversion to Mission Christianity among the Kachin of Upper Burma 1877–1972 / La Seng Dingrin

Have the Mitdes Gone Silent? Conversion, Rhetoric, and the Continuing Importance of the Lower Deities in Northeast India / Erik de Maaker

Is Conversion to Christianity Pantheon Theocide? Fragility and Durability in Early Diasporic Chinese Protestantism / Jonathan A. Seitz

Conversion without \'Commotion\': Rev. Lal Behari Day’s Candramukhīr Upākhyān (Story of Candramukhī) / Sipra Mukherjee

Loss and Gain: An ‘Intellectualist’ Conversion and Its Socio-Cognitive Calculus in the Hindu-Christian Life of Nehemiah Goreh / Richard Fox Young

The Enigma of Christian Conversion in Modern Japan: The Case of Two Buddhist Priests / Gregory Vanderbilt

\'Becoming Faithful\': Conversion, Syncretism, and the Interreligious Hermeneutical Strategies of the \'Faithful of Jesus\' (Īsā īmāndārs) in Today’s Bangladesh / Jonas Adelin Jørgensen

Does the Divine Physician Have an Unfair Advantage? Healing and the Politics of Conversion in Twentieth-Century India / Chad M. Bauman

Conversion and Moral Ambiguity: An Chunggŭn, Nationalism and the Catholic Church in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Korea / Franklin Rausch

Connecting Disconnections: Troubling Meanings of Christian Conversion in Imperial North India / Rhonda Semple

The Illusion of Conversion: Śiva Meets Mary at Vēḷāṅkaṇṇi in Southern India / Matthias Frenz

Conversion to Christianity among the Thai and Sino-Thai of Modern Thailand: Growth, Experimentation, and Networking in the Contemporary Context / Edwin Zehner

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Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 25, 2013).

ISBN:

90-04-25129-4

OCLC:

846843974