TY  - BOOK
AU  - Young,Richard Fox
AU  - Seitz,Jonathan A.
TI  - Asia in the making of Christianity: conversion, agency, and indigeneity, 1600s to the present 
T2  - Social sciences in Asia,
SN  - 9789004251298
AV  - BR1065 .A8525 2013eb
U1  - 275 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Christian converts
KW  - Asia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Convertis chrétiens
KW  - Asie
KW  - Biographies
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Religious
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Church history
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - collective biographies
KW  - aat
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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