ISBN:
9789004251298
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (466 p)
Edition:
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Social Sciences in Asia 35
Series Statement:
Social Sciences in Asia Ser v.35
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Asia in the making of Christianity
DDC:
275
Keywords:
Asia ; Church history
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Christian converts ; Asia ; Biography
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Asien
;
Christentum
;
Mission
;
Konvertit
;
Geschichte 1600-
Abstract:
Asia in the Making of Christianity studies the experience of converts from fifteen locations throughout Asia, using a variety of approaches to examine the meaning of becoming Christian. The book addresses and assesses models under debate for understanding religious conversion
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction; PART I: CONTINUITY IN CHANGE, CHANGE IN CONTINUITY; Early Christian Conversion in Seventeenth-Century Cochinchina; Translating Spirits: Protestants, Possessions, and the Grammarsof Conversion in Shandong Province; Preaching ( 傳 chuan), Worshipping ( 拜 bai), and Believing( 信 xin): Recasting the Conversionary Process in South China; Conversion to Mission Christianity among the Kachin ofUpper Burma 1877-1972
Description / Table of Contents:
Have the Mitdes Gone Silent? Conversion, Rhetoric, and theContinuing Importance of the Lower Deities in NortheastIndiaPART II: CONFLICTED MEANINGS, MEANINGFUL CONFLICTS; Is Conversion to Christianity Pantheon Theocide? Fragility and Durability in Early Diasporic Chinese Protestantism; Conversion without ""Commotion"": Rev. Lal Behari Day's Candramukhīr Upākhyān (Story of Candramukhī); Loss and Gain: An 'Intellectualist' Conversion and ItsSocio-Cognitive Calculus in the Hindu-Christian Life ofNehemiah Goreh; The Enigma of Christian Conversion in Modern Japan:The Case of Two Buddhist Priests
Description / Table of Contents:
"Becoming Faithful": Conversion, Syncretism, and theInterreligious Hermeneutical Strategies of the "Faithful of Jesus"(Īsā īmāndārs) in Today's BangladeshPART III: THE POLITICS OF CONVERSION AND THE CONVERSION OF POLITICS; Does the Divine Physician Have an Unfair Advantage? Healing and the Politics of Conversion in Twentieth-Century India; Conversion and Moral Ambiguity: An Chunggŭn, Nationalismand the Catholic Church in Late Nineteenth and EarlyTwentieth Century Korea; Connecting Disconnections: Troubling Meanings of ChristianConversion in Imperial North India
Description / Table of Contents:
The Illusion of Conversion: Śiva Meets Mary at Vēḷāṅkaṇṇi inSouthern IndiaConversion to Christianity among the Thai and Sino-Thai ofModern Thailand: Growth, Experimentation, and Networkingin the Contemporary Context; Select Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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