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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: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9789004251298
  • 9004251294
  • 9781299561199
  • 1299561195
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Asia in the making of Christianity.DDC classification:
  • 275 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1065 .A8525 2013eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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.