Christian interculture : texts and voices from colonial and postcolonial worlds / edited by Arun W. Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Arun W., editor.

Series:

World Christianity (University Park, Pa.)

World Christianity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and culture--History.

Christianity and culture.

Africa--Church history.

Africa.

America--Church history.

America.

Asia--Church history.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 252 pages)

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"A collection of essays exploring how scholars can discern the voices, thoughts, activities, and motivations of indigenous Christians of Asia, Africa, and the Americas in texts produced in the context of European domination from 1500 to the present"-- Provided by publisher.

Despite the remarkable growth of Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin America since the early colonial period, there is a dearth of primary material produced by these Christians. This volume explores the problem of writing the history of indigenous Christian communities in the Global South. Many such indigenous Christian groups pass along knowledge orally, and colonial forces have often not deemed their ideas and activities worth preserving. In some instances, documentation from these communities has been destroyed by people or nature. Highlighting the creative solutions that historians have found to this problem, the essays in this volume detail the strategies employed in discerning the perspectives, ideas, activities, motives, and agency of Indigenous Christians. The contributors approach the problem on a case-by-case basis, acknowledging the impact of diverse geographical, cultural, political, and ecclesiastical factors--publisher.

Contents:

Beyond troublemakers and collaborators : historical research into newly evangelized African Catholics / Paul Kollman

Completing the line of communication : on hearing the voice of the "native Christian" / Mrinalini Sebastian

In search of the women in the archival sources : the case of Maria Maraga / Esther Mombo

In search of Kirishitan women martyrs' voices in the early modern Jesuit mission literature in Japan / Haruko Nawata Ward

Native Christianity and communal justice in colonial Mexico : an ambivalent history / Yanna Yannakakis

Ocaña's Mondragón in the "eighth wonder of the world" / Kenneth Mills

They talk. We listen? : Native American Christians in speech and on paper / Christopher Vecsey

Native Christians writing back? : the periodicals of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente in the early twentieth-century Philippines / Adrian Hermann

For you, most reverend father, and for our archives : recovering the voice of Bishop Aloys Bigirumwami in late colonial Rwanda / J.J. Carney.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271090023

0271090022

9780271090047

0271090049

OCLC:

1240556797