The Oxford handbook of Christianity in Asia / edited by Felix Wilfred.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
  • ©2014
Description
xxi, 657 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

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Subject(s)
Editor
Series
Oxford handbooks [More in this series]
Notes
Series statement from book jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • General introduction / Felix Wilfred
  • part I. Mapping Asian Christianity. Introduction / Georg Evers
  • Christianity in western Asia / Herman G.B. Teule
  • South Asian Christianity in context / Felix Wilfred
  • Christian minorities on the Central Asian silk roads / Sébastien Peyrouse
  • "On the trail of spices": Christianity in Southeast Asia: common traits of the encounter of Christianity with societies, cultures, and religions in Southeast Asia / Georg Evers
  • Identity and marginality: Christianity in East Asia / Edmond Tang
  • part II. Cross-cultural flows and pan-Asian movements of Asian Christianity. Introduction / Felix Wilfred
  • Asian theological trends / Michael Amaladoss
  • Scriptural translations and cross-textual hermeneutics / Archie C.C. Lee
  • The contributions of the ecumenical movement in Asia to world ecumenism / Aruna Gnanadason
  • Inter-Asia mission and global missionary movements from Asia / Sebastian Kim
  • Pentecostalism and charismatic movements in Asia / Allan Heaton Anderson
  • Forms of Asian indigenous Christianities / Paul Joshua Bhakiaraj
  • Gender, sexuality, and Christian feminist movements in Asia / Sharon A. Bong
  • part III. Asian Christianities and the social-cultural processes. Introduction / Wong Wai Ching Angela
  • Modernity and change of values: Asian Christian negotiations and resistance / Wong Wai Ching Angela
  • Christianity in Southeast Asia: colonialism, nationalism and the caveats to conversion / Julius Bautista
  • Sociopolitical developments in West Asia and their impact on Christian minorities in the region / Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid
  • Religious disarmament: rethinking religious conversion in Asia / Rudolf C. Heredia
  • Christianity and political democratization: the case of East Asia / Huang Po Ho
  • The role of Christianity in peace and conflict in Asia / Jude Lal Fernando
  • Christianity and the cause of Asian women / Gemma Tulud Cruz
  • Christianity and education in Asia / Jun Li
  • Christian social engagement in Asia / Felix Wilfred
  • part IV. Asian Christianity in interaction with Asian religious traditions. Introduction / Georg Evers
  • Changing paradigms of Asian Christian attitude to other religions / S. Wesley Ariarajah
  • Jewish-Christian relationships in west Asia: history, major issues, challenges, and prospects / David Mark Neuhaus
  • Muslim perceptions of Asian Christianity: a survey / Ataullah Siddiqui
  • The multiverse of Hindu engagement with Christianity: plural streams of creative co-walking, contradictions, and confrontations / Ananta Kumar Giri
  • Christian tradition in the eyes of Asian Buddhists: the case of Japan / Dennis Hirota
  • Encounter between Confucianism and Christianity / Jonathan Y. Tan
  • Christianity and conversion: conceptualization and critique, past and present, with special reference to South Asia / Richard Fox Young
  • Christian art and architecture in Asia / Gudrun Löwner
  • part V. Some future trajectories of Asian Christianity. Introduction / Francis X. Clooney
  • Christians in Asia read sacred books of the East / George Gispert-Sauch
  • Multiple religious belonging or complex identity? An Asian way of being religious / Albertus Bagus Laksana
  • Asian Christian spirituality / Peter C. Phan
  • Asian Christian forms of worship and music / Swee Hong Lim
  • Revisiting historiographies: new trajectories for Asian Christianity / Daniel Franklin Pilario
  • Asian Christianity and public life: the interplay / Felix Wilfred
  • Migration and new cosmopolitanism in Asian Christianity / Jose Mario C. Francisco
  • In the light of Asia: reflections of a Western Christian / Francis X. Clooney
  • Religious adherents in Asia by country, mid-2010: statistics table / source: World Religion Database, Todd M. Johnson and Brian J. Grim, eds.
Other title(s)
  • Handbook of Christianity in Asia
  • Christianity in Asia
ISBN
  • 9780199329069 (hardback)
  • 0199329060 (hardback)
LCCN
2013039960
OCLC
887897375
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