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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Social sciences in Asia ; v. 35.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013Description: xx, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789004236622
  • 9004236627
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 275 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1065 .A8525 2013
Contents:
Part I. Continuity in change, change in continuity. Early Christian conversion in seventeenth-century / Nola Cooke -- Translating spirits: Protestants, possessions, and the grammars of conversion in Shandong Province / Richard Burden -- Preaching (chuan), worshipping (bai), and believing (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 -- Part II. Conflicted meanings, meaningful conflicts. 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 -- Part 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 / 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.
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 Chunggun 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 Christianity 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 mico- with macrocontextual approaches.
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Book: Standard Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre England Collection BR1065 .A65 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 18-837

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-434) and index.

Part I. Continuity in change, change in continuity. Early Christian conversion in seventeenth-century / Nola Cooke -- Translating spirits: Protestants, possessions, and the grammars of conversion in Shandong Province / Richard Burden -- Preaching (chuan), worshipping (bai), and believing (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 -- Part II. Conflicted meanings, meaningful conflicts. 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 -- Part 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 / 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.

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 Chunggun 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 Christianity 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 mico- with macrocontextual approaches.

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