Global Visions of Violence : : Agency and Persecution in World Christianity /

Global Visions of Violence : : Agency and Persecution in World Christianity / / ed. by David C. Kirkpatrick, Jason Bruner.

In Global Visions of Violence, the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaboration that examines Christianity worldwide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By analyzing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering i...

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MitwirkendeR:
Boopalan, John,
Boopalan, Sunder John,
Bruner, Jason,
Cabrita, Joel,
Chow, Christie Chui-Shan,
Chui-Shan Chow, Christie,
Corrigan, John,
Elisha, Omri,
Kaell, Hillary,
Kingsbury, Kate,
Kirkpatrick, David C.,
Kwiyani, Harvey,
Lukasik, Candace,
McAlister, Melani,
HerausgeberIn:
Bruner, Jason,
Kirkpatrick, David C.,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (222 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction: Locating Christian Agency in a World of Suffering
  • PART ONE Geographies
  • Introduction
  • 1 Of Numbers and Subjects: Empathic Distance in the American Protestant Missionary Agenda
  • 2 Saved by a Martyr: Media, Suffering, and Power in Evangelical Internationalism
  • 3 American Theodicy: Human Nature and Natural Disaster
  • PART TWO Bodies
  • Introduction
  • 4 Apartheid and World Christianity: How Violence Shaped Theories of “Indigenous” Religion in Twentieth-Century Africa
  • 5 Danger, Distress, Disease, and Death: Santa Muerte and Her Female Followers
  • 6 Modern-Day Martyrs: Coptic Blood and American Christian Kinship
  • PART THREE Communities
  • Introduction
  • 7 Bishop Colenso Is Dead: White Missionaries and Black Suspicion in Colonial Africa
  • 8 Religions and the Production of Affect in Caste-Based Societies
  • 9 From Persecution to Exile: The Church of Almighty God from China
  • Afterword: Global Visions of Violence— A Response
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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