Global visions of violence : agency and persecution in world Christianity / edited by Jason Bruner and David C. Kirkpatrick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirkpatrick, David C., editor.

Bruner, Jason, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persecution.

Suffering--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Suffering.

Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"In Global Visions of Violence, the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaboration that examines Christianity worldwide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By analyzing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the imagination of Christian identity globally, this interdisciplinary volume integrates the perspectives of ethicists, historians, anthropologists, and ethnographers to generate new conversations. Taken together, the chapters in this book challenge scholarship on Christian growth that has not accounted for violence while analyzing persecution narratives that can wield data toward partisan ends. This allows Global Visions of Violence to push urgent conversations forward, giving voice to projects that illuminate wide and often hidden landscapes that have been shaped by global visions of violence, and seeking solutions that end violence and turn toward the pursuit of justice, peace, and human rights among suffering Christians"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction: Locating Christian Agency in a World of Suffering

PART ONE Geographies

Introduction

1 Of Numbers and Subjects: Empathic Distance in the American Protestant Missionary Agenda

2 Saved by a Martyr: Media, Suffering, and Power in Evangelical Internationalism

3 American Theodicy: Human Nature and Natural Disaster

PART TWO Bodies

4 Apartheid and World Christianity: How Violence Shaped Theories of “Indigenous” Religion in Twentieth-Century Africa

5 Danger, Distress, Disease, and Death: Santa Muerte and Her Female Followers

6 Modern-Day Martyrs: Coptic Blood and American Christian Kinship

PART THREE Communities

7 Bishop Colenso Is Dead: White Missionaries and Black Suspicion in Colonial Africa

8 Religions and the Production of Affect in Caste-Based Societies

9 From Persecution to Exile: The Church of Almighty God from China

Afterword: Global Visions of Violence— A Response

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-208) and index.

ISBN:

1-9788-3085-8

1-9788-3086-6

OCLC:

1355694753