Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict

ISBN-13: 9780415627429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 232 str.

Julius Bautista; Francis Khek Gee Lim

Opis

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-a-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.

Spis treści

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