Encountering Modernity : : Christianity in East Asia and Asian America /

Encountering Modernity : : Christianity in East Asia and Asian America / / ed. by David K. Yoo, Russell Leong, Albert L. Park.

The story of Catholicism and Protestantism in China, Japan, and Korea has been told in great detail. The existing literature is especially rich in documenting church and missionary activities as well as how varied regions and cultures have translated Christian ideas and practices. Less evident, howe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Chang, Kyusik,
Chen, Carolyn,
Easley, Eun Young Lee,
Lee, Joseph Tse-Hei,
Mullins, Mark R.,
Ownby, David,
Park, Albert L.,
Park, Yunjae,
Vanderbilt, Gregory,
Washington, Garrett L.,
Yoo, David K.,
HerausgeberIn:
Leong, Russell,
Park, Albert L.,
Yoo, David K.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies ; 41
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 7 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Modernity and the Materiality of Religion
  • Part I. Economy and Religion
  • 1. A Sacred Economy of Value and Production Capitalism and Protestantism in Early Modern Korea (1885-1919)
  • 2. Taking Jesus Public The Neoliberal Transformation of Korean Megachurches
  • Part II. Religion and Social Relations
  • 3. Guanxi and Gospel Mapping Christian Networks in South China
  • 4. Accidental Pilgrims Modernity, Migration, and Christian Conversion among Contemporary Taiwanese Americans
  • Part III. The Sacred and Social Activism
  • 5. Christianity and Civil Society in Colonial Korea The Civil Society Movement of Cho Man-sik and the P'yŏngyang YMCA against Japanese Colonialism
  • 6. Between Mission and Medicine The Early History of Severance Hospital
  • 7. Kagawa Toyohiko (1888-1960) and the Japanese Christian Impact on American Society
  • Part IV. Religion and National Identity
  • 8. Preaching Modern Japan National Imaginaries and Protestant Sermons in Meiji and Taishō Tokyo
  • 9. "Smelling of Pickled Radish, Not Butter" The Wartime Search for a Christianity Viable in Japan
  • 10. Diasporic Korean Christianity in the United States, 1922-1941
  • 11. Protestant Christianity in Reform-Era China Realities and Representations
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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