Christianity and the State in Asia

Complicity and Conflict
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-62742-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

Christianity is one of the most rapidly growing religions in Asia. Despite the challenges of political marginalisation, church organisations throughout much of Asia are engaged in activities - such as charity, education and commentary on public morality - that may either converge or conflict with the state's interests. Considering Christianity’s growing prominence, and the various ways Asian nation states respond to this growth, this book brings into sharper analytical focus the ways in which the faith is articulated at the local, regional, and global level.

Contributors from diverse disciplinary and institutional backgrounds offer in-depth analyses of the complex interactions between Asian nation-states and Christianity in the context of modernisation and nation-building. Exploring the social and political ramifications of Christian conversions in Asia and their impact on state policies, the book analyses how Christian followers, missionaries, theologians and activists negotiate their public roles and identities vis-à-vis various forms of Asian states, particularly in the context of post-colonial nation-building and socio-economic development.

This volume represents a critical contribution to the existing scholarship on Christianity's global reach and its local manifestations, and demonstrates the significance of the Asian experience in our understanding of Christianity as a global religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bautista, Julius

Khek Gee Lim, Francis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict 2. Evangelism, the State, and Subjectivity 3. Is Protestant Conversion a Form of Protest? Urban and Upland Protestants in Southeast Asia 4. Postwar Japanese Christian Historians, Democracy, and the Problem of Wartime "Christianity on Japanese Terms" 5. Negotiating ‘Foreignness’, Localizing Faith: Tibetan Catholicism in the Yunnan-Tibet Borderlands 6. Conversions, Complicity and the State in Post-Independence India 7. Transcending the Local: Chinese Indonesians, the State, and Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity 8. The Issue of HIV/AIDS in the Philippines: The Roman Catholic Church and the Philippine Government 9. Christian Reactions to Government-led Cremation in South Korea 10. Subject to Kings, Presidents, Rulers and Magistrates 11. Christianity in Singapore: The Voice of Conscience? 12. About Face: Asian Christianity in the Context of Southern Expansion

Über Autor(innen)

Francis Khek Gee Lim is Assistant Professor in the Division of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University. He is the author of Imagining the Good Life: Negotiating Culture and Development in Nepal Himalaya, and has published in a number of international refereed journals. His research interests include religion, tourism, and globalization.

Julius Bautista is an anthropologist and is Lecturer at the Southeast Asian Studies Programme, the National University of Singapore (NUS). He concurrently holds a Visiting Fellowship at the Asia Research Institute, NUS, and has published on topics on Philippine religion and culture in various scholarly forums. His broader interests include material religion and diasporic identity in Southeast Asia.