Phan Christianities in Asia

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9259-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Christianity in Asia explores the history, development, andcurrent state of Christianity across the world's largest andmost populous continent.
* Offers detailed coverage of the growth of Christianity withinSouth Asia; among the thousands of islands comprising SoutheastAsia; and across countries whose Christian origins werehistorically linked, including Vietnam, Thailand, China, Hong Kong,Taiwan, Japan, and Korea
* Brings together a truly international team of contributors,many of whom are natives of the countries they are writingabout
* Considers the Middle Eastern countries whose Christian rootsare deepest, yet have turbulent histories and uncertainfutures
* Explores the ways in which Christians in Asian countries havereceived and transformed Christianity into their local orindigenous religion
* Shows Christianity to be a vibrant contemporary movement inmany Asian countries, despite its comparatively minority status inthese regions

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phan, Peter C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps.
Notes on Contributors.
Preface.
1. Introduction: Asian Christianity/Christianities (Peter C. Phan).
2. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar (Elizabeth Koepping).
3. Sri Lanka (Jeyaraj Rasiah).
4. Indonesia (John Prior).
5. Malaysia and Singapore (Edmund Kee-Fook Chia).
6. The Philippines (Jose Mario C. Francisco, S.J.).
7. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand (Peter C. Phan).
8. Mainland China (Ying Fuk-tsang).
9. Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau (Lo Lung-kwong).
10. Japan (Mark R. Mullins).
11. South Korea (Andrew Eungi Kim).
12. The Middle East (Lois Farag).
Conclusion: Whither Asian Christianities? (Peter C. Phan).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Peter C. Phan holds the Ignacio Ellacuría Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University. The first non-Anglo person to be elected President of Catholic Theological Society of America, his books include Mission and Catechesis (1999), Christianity with an Asia Face (2003), and Vietnamese-American Catholics (2005).