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Asia in the making of Christianity : conversion, agency, and indigeneity, 1600s to the present /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Young, Richard Fox, Seitz, Jonathan A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Colección:Social sciences in Asia ; v. 35.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Have the Mitdes Gone Silent? Conversion, Rhetoric, and the Continuing Importance of the Lower Deities in Northeast IndiaPART 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 Its Socio-Cognitive Calculus in the Hindu-Christian Life of Nehemiah Goreh.
  • The Enigma of Christian Conversion in Modern Japan: The Case of Two Buddhist Priests"Becoming Faithful": Conversion, Syncretism, and the Interreligious Hermeneutical Strategies of the "Faithful of Jesus" (Īsā īmāndārs) in Today's Bangladesh; 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; Conversion and Moral Ambiguity: An Chunggŭn, Nationalism and the Catholic Church in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Korea.
  • Connecting Disconnections: Troubling Meanings of Christian Conversion in Imperial North IndiaThe Illusion of Conversion: Śiva Meets Mary at Vēḷāṅkaṇṇi in Southern India; Conversion to Christianity among the Thai and Sino-Thai of Modern Thailand: Growth, Experimentation, and Networking in the Contemporary Context; Select Bibliography; Index.