Encountering Modernity: Christianity in East Asia and Asian America 9780824840174
The story of Catholicism and Protestantism in China, Japan, and Korea has been told in great detail. The existing litera
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Table of contents :
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
