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Christianity and the state in Asia : complicity and conflict / edited by Julius Bautista and Francis Khek Gee Lim.

Contributor(s): Bautista, Julius | Lim, Francis Khek Gee
Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy: Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009Description: x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415480697 (hardback : alk. paper); 0415480698 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Church and state -- Asia | Christianity and politics -- AsiaDDC classification: 261.7095 LOC classification: BR1275 | .C47 2009Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Christianity and the state in Asia : complicity and conflict / Julius Bautista, Francis Khek Gee Lim -- Evangelism, the state, and subjectivity / Bryan S. Turner -- Is Protestant conversion a form of protest? : urban and upland Protestants in Southeast Asia / Oscar Salemink -- Post-war Japanese Christian historians, democracy, and the problem of the 'Emperor-System' state / Gregory Vanderbilt -- Negotiating 'foreignness', localizing faith : Tibetan Catholicism in the Yunnan-Tibet borderlands / Francis Khek Gee Lim -- Conversions, complicity and the state in post-independence India / Bhagwan Josh -- Singing yourself into existence : Chinese Indonesian entrepreneurs, Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity and the Indonesian nation state / Juliette Koning -- The issue of HIV/AIDS in the Philippines : the Roman Catholic Church and the Philippine government / Digna B. Apilado -- Christian reactions to government-led cremation in South Korea / Chang-Won Park -- Subject to kings, presidents, rulers and magistrates / Greg D. Petersen -- Accommodating relationships : the Church and state in Singapore / Mathew Mathews -- About face : Asian Christianity in the context of southern expansion / Julius Bautista.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Christianity and the state in Asia : complicity and conflict / Julius Bautista, Francis Khek Gee Lim -- Evangelism, the state, and subjectivity / Bryan S. Turner -- Is Protestant conversion a form of protest? : urban and upland Protestants in Southeast Asia / Oscar Salemink -- Post-war Japanese Christian historians, democracy, and the problem of the 'Emperor-System' state / Gregory Vanderbilt -- Negotiating 'foreignness', localizing faith : Tibetan Catholicism in the Yunnan-Tibet borderlands / Francis Khek Gee Lim -- Conversions, complicity and the state in post-independence India / Bhagwan Josh -- Singing yourself into existence : Chinese Indonesian entrepreneurs, Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity and the Indonesian nation state / Juliette Koning -- The issue of HIV/AIDS in the Philippines : the Roman Catholic Church and the Philippine government / Digna B. Apilado -- Christian reactions to government-led cremation in South Korea / Chang-Won Park -- Subject to kings, presidents, rulers and magistrates / Greg D. Petersen -- Accommodating relationships : the Church and state in Singapore / Mathew Mathews -- About face : Asian Christianity in the context of southern expansion / Julius Bautista.

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