Christianities in Asia

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Peter C. Phan
John Wiley & Sons, Dec 13, 2010 - Religion - 290 pages
Christianity in Asia explores the history, development, and current state of Christianity across the world’s largest and most populous continent.
  • Offers detailed coverage of the growth of Christianity within South Asia; among the thousands of islands comprising Southeast Asia; and across countries whose Christian origins were historically 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 writing about
  • Considers the Middle Eastern countries whose Christian roots are deepest, yet have turbulent histories and uncertain futures
  • Explores the ways in which Christians in Asian countries have received and transformed Christianity into their local or indigenous religion
  • Shows Christianity to be a vibrant contemporary movement in many Asian countries, despite its comparatively minority status in these regions
 

Selected pages

Contents

India Pakistan Bangladesh BurmaMyanmar
9
The First Attack on Contextualized South Asian
16
Laity and the Expansion of Christianity
22
The Performance of Christianity in South Asia
33
Sri Lanka
45
Independent Sri Lanka
52
Indonesia
61
Indigenous Roots
67
Cambodia Laos Thailand
141
Mainland China
149
Christianity and Chinese Society
161
Taiwan Hong Kong Macau
173
Japan
197
South Korea
217
Christianity as an Agency of Modernization
223
The Middle East
233

Malaysia and Singapore
77
The Philippines
97
Vietnam Cambodia Laos Thailand
129
The Church of the East
240
The Armenians in the Middle East
249
Index
263

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About the author (2010)

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).

Bibliographic information

TitleChristianities in Asia
Volume 1 of Wiley Blackwell Guides to Global Christianity
EditorPeter C. Phan
Editionillustrated
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2010
ISBN1405160896, 9781405160896
Length290 pages
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