World Christianity and Covid-19: Looking Back and Looking Forward

ISBN-13: 9783031125690 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 424 str.

Chammah J. Kaunda

Opis

This volume explores how Christians around the world have made sense of the meaning of suffering in the context of and post-COVID-19. It interrogates the question of God, suffering, and structural injustice. Further, it discusses the Christian response to the compounded threats of racial injustice, climate injustice, wildlife injustice, gender injustice, economic injustice, political injustice, unjust in the distributions of the vaccine and future challenges in the post-COVID-19 era. The contributions are authored by scholars, students, activists and clergy from various fields of inquiry and church traditions. The volume seeks to deepen Christian understanding of the meaning of suffering in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the fresh ways the pandemic can contribute to reconceptualizing human relations and specifically, what it means to be human in the context of suffering, the place of or justifications of God in suffering, human place in creation, and the role of the church in re-articulating the theological meanings and praxes of suffering for today.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: “See, Choose, Act” 

Part I Faith Trouble 17

2 A Test Case for the Theodicy Problem 

3 Lament in the City

4 Faith in the International Order 

5 Punisher, Healer, or Sufferer? 

6 Disaster Socialism

Part II Unveiling and Naming Distortions 

7 Weaponization of Faith 

8 Anti-black Racism 

9 Anthropocentric and White Supremacist Notions of God 

10 Lockdown and Sexual Exploitation 

11 Online Sexualization 

Part III New Eyes for Rereading the Bible 

12 A Reflection on Psalm 88 

13 Expression of Korean Han 

14 Ghanaian Prosperity Preaching 

15 Malawian Christian Suffering 

16 Epidemics and Major Disasters

Part IV (Un)Rethinking Traditions 

17 Zambian Pentecostalism and Traditional Healing

18 Kerala Pentecostalism and Mental Health Crisis 

19 Marian Pentecostalism and Environmentalism 

20 Death Rituals in Western Kenya 

Part V Mobilizing Subversive Spiritualities 

21 Animal Suffering 

22 Possibilities of Resurrection 

23 Imago Dei Ecclesiology 

24 Filipino Family Eucharist 

25 Spiritual Challenge

O autorze

Chammah J. Kaunda is Assistant Professor of World Christianity and Mission Studies at the United Graduate School of Theology, Yonsei University, Korean Republic. He is also an Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, and a Research Fellow for the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research. 

Blurb

This volume explores how Christians around the world have made sense of the meaning of suffering in the context of and post-COVID-19. It interrogates the question of God, suffering, and structural injustice. Further, it discusses the Christian response to the compounded threats of racial injustice, climate injustice, wildlife injustice, gender injustice, economic injustice, political injustice, unjust in the distributions of the vaccine and future challenges in the post-COVID-19 era. The contributions are authored by scholars, students, activists and clergy from various fields of inquiry and church traditions. The volume seeks to deepen Christian understanding of the meaning of suffering in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the fresh ways the pandemic can contribute to reconceptualizing human relations and specifically, what it means to be human in the context of suffering, the place of or justifications of God in suffering, human place in creation, and the role of the church in re-articulating the theological meanings and praxes of suffering for today.

Chammah J. Kaunda is Assistant Professor of World Christianity and Mission Studies at the United Graduate School of Theology, Yonsei University, Korean Republic. He is also an Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, and a Research Fellow for the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research.