Global Visions of Violence argues that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method to examine Christianity worldwide. These chapters illuminate often hidden landscapes that have been shaped by global visions of violence, showing how Christians in Africa, Asia, and Latin America respond to violence as they express their Christian faith.
Global Visions of Violence argues that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method to examine Christianity worldwide. These chapters illuminate often hidden landscapes that have been shaped by global visions of violence, showing how Christians in Africa, Asia, and Latin America respond to violence as they express their Christian faith.
Jason Bruner is an associate professor of religious studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe. David C. Kirkpatrick is an associate professor of religion in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Locating Christian Agency in a World of Suffering JASON BRUNER AND DAVID C. KIRKPATRICK PART ONE Geographies 1 Of Numbers and Subjects: Empathic Distance in the American Protestant Missionary Agenda JOHN CORRIGAN 2 Saved by a Martyr: Media, Suffering, and Power in Evangelical Internationalism OMRI ELISHA 3 American Theodicy: Human Nature and Natural Disaster HILLARY KAELL PART TWO Bodies 4 Apartheid and World Christianity: How Violence Shapes Theories of “Indigenous” Religion in Twentieth-Century Africa JOEL CABRITA 5 Danger, Distress, Disease, and Death: Santa Muerte and Her Female Followers KATE KINGSBURY 6 Modern-Day Martyrs: Coptic Blood and American Christian Kinship CANDACE LUKASIK PART THREE Communities 7 Bishop Colenso Is Dead: White Missionaries and Black Suspicion in Colonial Africa HARVEY KWIYANI 8 Religion and the Production of Affect in Caste-Based Societies SUNDER JOHN BOOPALAN 9 From Persecution to Exile: The Church of Almighty God from China CHRISTIE CHUI-SHAN CHOW Afterword: Global Visions of Violence—A Response MELANI McALISTER Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
Introduction: Locating Christian Agency in a World of Suffering JASON BRUNER AND DAVID C. KIRKPATRICK PART ONE Geographies 1 Of Numbers and Subjects: Empathic Distance in the American Protestant Missionary Agenda JOHN CORRIGAN 2 Saved by a Martyr: Media, Suffering, and Power in Evangelical Internationalism OMRI ELISHA 3 American Theodicy: Human Nature and Natural Disaster HILLARY KAELL PART TWO Bodies 4 Apartheid and World Christianity: How Violence Shapes Theories of “Indigenous” Religion in Twentieth-Century Africa JOEL CABRITA 5 Danger, Distress, Disease, and Death: Santa Muerte and Her Female Followers KATE KINGSBURY 6 Modern-Day Martyrs: Coptic Blood and American Christian Kinship CANDACE LUKASIK PART THREE Communities 7 Bishop Colenso Is Dead: White Missionaries and Black Suspicion in Colonial Africa HARVEY KWIYANI 8 Religion and the Production of Affect in Caste-Based Societies SUNDER JOHN BOOPALAN 9 From Persecution to Exile: The Church of Almighty God from China CHRISTIE CHUI-SHAN CHOW Afterword: Global Visions of Violence—A Response MELANI McALISTER Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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