Phan Christianities in Asia

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9260-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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.

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).