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Author:   Thomas Seat ,  Sunder John Boopalan ,  Christie Chui-Shan Chow ,  Deanna Ferree Womack
Publisher:   Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Imprint:   Fortress Press,U.S.
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9798889838234

Pages:   221
Publication Date:   07 April 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION--Thomas W. Seat CHAPTER 1--World Christianity After World Religions, Jason Bruner CHAPTER 2--Engaging Literary Voices in World Christianity: The Pedagogical and Theoretical Value of World Literature in World Christianity, Jonathan Seitz CHAPTER 3--Saving the World Through Ethnography, Sunder John Boopalan CHAPTER 4--Syrian Christians and Arab-Islamic Identity: Expressions of Belonging in the Ottoman Empire and America, Deanna Ferree Womack CHAPTER 5--Critiques of Christianity from Savarkar to Malhotra, Chad Bauman CHAPTER 6--Converting History: Ham Sok-Hon's A Spiritual History of Korea, Hyung Jin Park CHAPTER 7--Grounded Theology as Theology of Pilgrimage: World Christianity's Bottom-Up Engagement with Ordinary Believers, Retief Müller CHAPTER 8--Civilizing Mission?: West African Midwives Within the Mission of Francis Aupiais, Briana Wong CHAPTER 9--Protestantization in Colonial South Asia: Enacting a Universal History Through Knowledge and Resistance, Chandra Mallampalli CHAPTER 10--Christian Witnessing Through Autobiographies in Contemporary China, Christie Chui-Shan Chow AFTERWORD--Raimundo César Barreto, Jr.

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Disciplinary Tensions in World Christianity is an outstanding book. The authors featured in its pages take methodological tensions emerging from the study of world Christianity not as problems to be solved but as generative resources for new insights and knowledge. They do so by placing issues of social justice and public engagement at the center of their concerns. Honoring the legacy of Richard Fox Young, the volume is especially concerned with deepening the conversations emerging from interreligious tensions. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in knowing what is happening along the cutting edge of world Christianity today. --Dale T. Irvin, coeditor, The Journal of World Christianity Much has been written in the name of World Christianity that only covers the limited circles of academic specialists. The present volume, however, takes a very different approach. The reader is taken through an intellectual cascade that starts off with methodological soul-searching in terms of the relative importance of studying religion, literature, and ethnography. The following seven chapters, evenly divided into the thematic blocks of history and sociopolitical power, advance cautiously along a chronological path, in turn visiting Christian communities and churches in the Ottoman empire, India, Korea, South Africa, West Africa, South Asia, and China. An epilogue by Raimundo Barreto honors Richard Fox Young, to whom the entire volume is dedicated. The editors of this volume are to be congratulated for having produced this exploration of genuine World Christianity. --Lars P. Laamann, senior lecturer, SOAS University of London Disciplinary Tensions in World Christianity is a welcome addition to recent works that address the state of the field of World Christianity. This thought-provoking volume features insightful case studies that examine the blind spots of the field, including its paradigms and how it handles justice and power. --Soojin Chung, director, Overseas Ministries Study Center at Princeton Theological Seminary; author of Adopting for God: The Mission to Change America Through Transnational Adoption

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Thomas Seat is a teaching fellow in the University Core at Seton Hall University. Sunder John Boopalan is an associate professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Canadian Mennonite University. Christie Chui-Shan Chow is a scholar of global Christianity and Chinese religions. Deanna Ferree Womack is associate professor of history of religions and interfaith studies at Emory University's Candler School of Theology.

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