World Christianity / edited by Elizabeth Koepping. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

Excerpt from "Nature is to culture as praying is to suing: legal pluralism in an American suburb' / Carol J. Greenhouse -- From pagan to Christian priesthood / David Passi -- Liturgical adaptation / P. Abega -- Excerpt from 'Beliefs of Catholics in Asia' / Edmund Chia -- Excerpt from 'The Bible and colonialism in the global context' / Pui-lan Kwok -- Excerpt from 'Polarity or partnership?: retelling the story of Martha and Mary from Asian women's perspective' / Ranjini Rebera -- Han-laden women: Korean 'comfort women' and women in Judges 19-21 / Yani Yoo -- Excerpt from 'Hermeneutical drama on the colonial stage: liminal space and creativity in Colenso's Commentary on Romans' / Jonathan A. Draper -- Challenging the Christian monopoly on the Bible: an aspect of the encounter between Christianity and Malegasy traditional religion in contemporary Madagascar / Georges Razafindrakoto ; Knut Holter -- Ritual / Wayne A. Meeks -- Office charisma in early Christian Ephesus / Anthony J. Blasi -- A complete history of early Christianity: taking 'heretics' seriously / Majella Franzmann -- Christianity and local culture in Late Roma Africa / Peter Brown -- Excerpt from 'Mountain Constantines: the Christianization of Aksum and Iberia' / Christopher Haas -- Excerpt from 'Thomas Christians and the Thomas tradition' / Robert Frykenberg -- Ch'ing-Tsing: Nestorian tablet: eulogizing the propagation of the illustrious religion in China, with a preface / composed by a priest of the Syriac Church, 781 AD -- Paganism in the Greek world at the end of antiquity: the case of rural Anatolia and Greece / Frank R. Trombley -- Rural people, the church in Kongo and the Afroamerican diaspora (1491-1750) / John K. Thornton -- 'The best thus far discovered': the Japanese in the letters of Francisco Xavier / Robert Richmond Ellis -- Misreading and its creativity in Sino-Western cultural communication at the end of the Ming dynasty / Sun Shangyang -- Crossing gender boundaries: Tupi and European women in the eyes of Claude d'Abbeville / Laura Fishman -- The significance of the manuscript / Antonio-Ma Rosales -- Wu Li (1632-1718) and the first Chinese Christian poetry / Jonathan Chaves -- 'Come vero prencipe Catolico': the Capuchins and the rulers of Soyo in the late seventeenth century / Richard Gray -- Bounded identities: women and religion in colonial Brazil, 1550-1750 / Carole A Myscofski -- Excerpt from 'The church at Nanrantsouak: Sebastien Rale, S.J., and the Wabanaki of Maine's Kennebec River' / William A. Clark -- Excerpt from' "A dangerous zeal": Catholic missions to slaves in the French Antilles, 1635-1800' / Sue Peabody -- Excerpt from 'A Lubeck prophet in local and Lutheran context' / Jurgen Beyer -- Christian virgins in eighteenth-century Sichuan / Robert E. Entenmann -- Excerpt from 'Conversations in Tarangambadi: caring for the self in early eighteenth century South India' / Eugene F. Irschick -- Conversion, identity, and the Indian missionary / Keely McCarthy.

The Parsis of Bombay and Christian conversion, 1839-1845 / Jesse S. Palsetia -- Cultivation, Christianity and colonialism: towards a new African genesis / John L. Comaroff ; Jean Comaroff -- Catholics in protest: lower-caste Christianity in early colonial Madras / Aparna Balachandran -- Excerpt from 'Christianity without civilization: Anglican sources for an alternative nineteenth-century mission methodology' / Sara H. Sohmer -- Missionary maternalism: gendered images of the Holy Spirit Sisters (SSpS) in colonial New Guinea / Nancy Lutkehaus -- Young converts: Christian missions, gender and youth in Onitsha, Nigeria 1880-1929 / Misty L. Bastian -- Excerpt from 'Devils, familiars and Spaniards: spheres of power and the supernatural in the world of Seberina Candelaria and her village in early 19th century Philippines' / Greg Bankoff -- Conversion by affiliation: the history of the Karo Batak Protestant Church / Rita Smith Kipp -- The making of an ethnic collectivity: Irish Catholic immigrants in nineteenth-century Christchurch / Lyndon A. Fraser -- The limits of religious ascription: baptized Tatars and the revision of 'apostasy, ' 1840s-1905/ Paul W. Werth -- Religion and modernization in 19th century Greece / Nikos Kokosalakis -- Indians and the breakdown of the Spanish mission system in California / George Harwood Phillips -- Hidden but real: the vital contribution of Biblewomen to the rapid growth of Korean Protestantism, 1892-1945 / Christine Sungjin Chang -- Kimbanguism and the question of syncretism in Zaire / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Excerpt from 'In the absence of priests: young women as apostles to the poor, Chile 1922-1932' / Gertrude M. Yeager -- Reinterpreting Chilean Pentecostalism / Juan Sepulveda -- Glossolalia and possession among Pentecostal groups of the Mezzogiorno / Maria Pia di Bella -- The Lord of heaven versus Jesus Christ: Christian sectarian violence in late-nineteenth-century South China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee -- Revolutionary anticlericalism and hegemonic processes in an Andalusian town, August 1936 / Richard Maddox -- Orthodox mission in tropical Africa / Stephen Hayes -- The Spirit and the scapular: Pentecostal and Catholic interactions in Northern Nyanga District, Zimbabwe in the 1950s and early 1960s / David J. Maxwell.

Coptic cultural nationalism / S.S. Hasan -- Ritual, history and identity in Goa / Alexander Henn -- Fellowship in contemporary religion and ethics: report on oral enquiry into beliefs of village people in Catholic diocese of Zhouzi / You Xilin ; Chen Lianguo -- The imitation of Christ in Bicol, Philippines / Fenella Cannell -- The status of Christian women in Kerala / Susan Visvanathan -- Contested masculine spaces in Greek Orthodoxy / Eleni Sotiriu -- Gender and change in an African immigrant church / Deidre Helen Crumbley ; Gloria Malake Cline-Smythe -- Excerpt from 'Faith, fashion and family: religion, aesthetics, identity and social organization in Strasbourg' / Atwood D. Gaines -- The feminization and professionalization of ordained ministry within the Ma'ohi Protestant church in French Polynesia / Gwendoline Malogne-Fer -- Experiencing spirit: religious processes of interaction and unification in Aboriginal Australia / Fiona Magowan -- Excerpt from 'Religion as resistance in Jamaican peasant life: the Baptist Church, revival worldview and Rastafari movement' / Jean Besson -- Structural obstacles to grassroots pastoral practice: the case of a base community in urban Brazil / Manuel A. Vasquez -- Inuit Pentecostal and evangelical movements in the Canadian Eastern Arctic: the case of the healing the land rituals developed by the Canada Awakening Ministries / Frederic Laugrand ; Jarich Oosten -- 'Culture' as tool and obstacle: missionary encounters in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan / Mathijs Pelkmans -- The faith-healers of the Assemblies of God in Burkina Faso: taking responsibility for diseases related to 'living together' / Pierre-Joseph Laurent -- The fundamentals of fertility: cosmology and conversion in a southwestern Nigerian town / Elisha P. Renne -- Jesus Christ as trickster in the religion of contemporary Bushmen / Matthias Guenther -- Conversion to Protestantism among urban immigrants in Taiwan / Hsing-Kuang Chao -- Christianity as a new religion: charisma, minor founders, and indigenous movements / Mark R. Mullins -- The hidden sphere of religious searches in the Soviet Union: independent religious communities in Leningrad from the 1960s to the 1970s / Olga Tchepournaya -- American evangelicalism in Zimbabwe / Paul Gifford -- Excerpt from 'The persistence of apocalypticism within a denominationalizing sect: the apocalyptic fringe groups of Seventh-day Adventism / Ronald Lawson -- Native evangelism in Central Mexico / Hugo G. Nutini -- 'Heathendom' and the powers of darkness: on the role of the devil in the preaching of the missionaries of the Norddeutsche Missionsgesellschaft in the nineteenth century and the contemporary African churches / Birgit Meyer -- The transnationalisation of Brazilian Pentecostalism: the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God / Paul Freston -- Certain knowledge: the encounter of global fundamentalism and local Christianity in urban south India / Lional Caplan -- Joana's story: syncretism at the actor's level / Andre Droogers.

Excerpt from 'Nakedness and clothing in early encounters between Aboriginal people of Central Australia, missionaries and anthropologists' / Peggy Brock -- To honor her head: hats as a symbol of women's position in three evangelical churches in Edinburgh, Scotland / Ruth Borker -- The immediacy of eternity: time and transformation in a Roman Catholic convent / Rebecca J. Lester -- Women living between the church and the state: a case study of Catholic women religious in contemporary rural China / Li Wenwen -- Excerpt from 'Pilgrimage and patronage in Brazil: a paradigm for social relations and religious diversity' / Sidney M. Greenfield ; Antonio Mourao Cavalcante -- Division and demolition at the tomb of a beloved saint: the evolving character of an Orthodox Christian pilgrim centre in India / Alex Gath -- Performing pilgrimage: Walsingham and the ritual construction of irony / Simon Coleman ; John Elsner -- Persistent peregrination: from Sun Dance to Catholic pilgrimage among Canadian Prairie Indians / Alan Morinis -- Bernard Mizeki: missionary saints and the creation of Christian communities / Dana L. Robert -- Excerpt from 'John Wesley slept here: American shrines and American Methodists' / Thomas A. Tweed -- Catholic hymns of Michigan Indians / Gertrude Prokosch Kurath -- Uduk faith in a five-note scale: mission music and the spread of the gospel / Wendy James -- Excerpt from '"Almost persuaded now to believe": gospel songs in New Zealand evangelical theology and practice' / Bryan D. Gilling -- Women as religious and political praise singers within African institutions: the case of the CCAP Blantyre Synod and political parties in Malawi / Clara Henderson ; Lisa Gilman -- Excerpt from 'Dalit theology in Tamil Christian folk music: a transformative liturgy by James Theophilus Appavoo' / Zoe C. Sherinian -- Syncretic objects: material culture of syncretism among the Paiwan Catholics, Taiwan / Chang-Kwo Tan -- Introduction to Christianity in Indian dance forms / Francis Peter Barboza -- Beyond Christendom: Protestant-Catholic distinctions in coming global Christianity / D. Paul Sullins -- Religion and the awakening of indigenous people in Latin America / Cristian Parker Gumucio -- Half a century of African Christian theologies: elements of the emerging agenda for the twenty-first century / Tinyiko Sam Maluleke.

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