| Description |
1 online resource (230 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy, 4 |
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Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy, 4
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Christianity and the state in Asia: complicity and conflict; 2 Evangelism, the state and subjectivity; 3 Is Protestant conversion a form of protest?: Urban and upland Protestants in Southeast Asia; 4 Post-war Japanese Christian historians, democracy, and the problem of the 'Emperor-System' state; 5 Negotiating 'foreignness', localizing faith: Tibetan Catholicism in the Tibet-Yunnan borderlands; 6 Conversion, complicity and the state in post-Independence India |
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7 Singing yourself into existence: Chinese Indonesian entrepreneurs, Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity and the Indonesian nation state8 The issue of HIV/AIDS in the Philippines: The Roman Catholic Church and the Philippine government; 9 Christian reactions to government-led cremation in South Korea; 10 Subjects to kings, presidents, rulers and magistrates; 11 Accommodating relationships: The Church and state in Singapore; 12 About |
| Summary |
This book examines how Christians in Asia express their religion under the spectre of the nation state and processes of globalization. Considering Christianity?s growing prominence, and the various ways Asian nation states respond to this growth, this book brings into sharper analytical focus the ways in which the faith is articulated at the local, regional, and global level |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Christianity and politics -- Asia
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Church and state -- Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lim, Francis Khek Gee
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| ISBN |
9780203883761 |
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0203883764 |
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