Encountering modernity
Subtitle: Christianity in East Asia and Asian America
By: edited by Albert L. Park and David K. Yoo
Series: Intersections : Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies; Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Los Angeles
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780824839475
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Kristendom; Christentum; Protestantismus; Kristna; Christianity; Religion; East Asian Americans; Religionswissenschaft; Katholizismus; East Asians; Missionstheologie
Description: This book brings together articles that document and analyze the encounter of Christianity with modernity in East Asia and Asian America in the late 19th and throughout the 20th century. Each essay situates the institutions and ideas of Christianity in broad political, economic, social, and cultural contexts that intersect China, Korea, Japan and the United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-327) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: modernity and the materiality of religion / Albert L. Park and David K. Yoo; title: A sacred economy of value and production: capitalism and Protestantism in early modern Korea (1885-1919) / Albert L. Park; title: Taking Jesus public: the neoliberal transformation of Korean megachurches / Eun Young Lee Easley; title: Guanxi and gospel: mapping Christian networks in south China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee; title: Accidental pilgrims: modernity, migration, and Christian conversion among contemporary Taiwanese Americans / Carolyn Chen; title: Christianity and civil society in colonial Korea: the civil society movement of Cho Man-sik and the P'yŏngyang YMCA against Japanese colonialism / Kyusik Chang; title: Between mission and medicine: the early history of Severance Hospital; title: Yunjae Park; title: Kagawa Toyohiko (1888-1960) and the Japanese Christian impact on American society / Mark R. Mullins; title: Preaching modern Japan: national imaginaries and Protestant sermons in Meiji and Taishō Tokyo / Garrett L. Washington; title: "Smelling of pickled radish, not butter": the wartime search for a Christianity viable in Japan / Gregory Vanderbilt; title: Diasporic Korean Christianity in the United States, 1922-1941 / David K. Yoo; title: Protestant Christianity in reform-era China: realities and representations / David Ownby.