Encountering modernity : Christianity in east Asia and Asian America /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Park, Albert L. (Editor), Yoo, David (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Los Angeles, [2014]
Series:	Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Subjects:	Christianity > East Asia. East Asians > United States > Religion. East Asian Americans > Religion. Christianity > United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: modernity and the materiality of religion / Albert L. Park and David K. Yoo
Pt. I: Economy and religion
A sacred economy of value and production: capitalism and Protestantism in early modern Korea (1885-1919) / Albert L. Park
Taking Jesus public: the neoliberal transformation of Korean megachurches / Eun Young Lee Easley
Pt. II: Religion and social relations
Guanxi and gospel: mapping Christian networks in south China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee
Accidental pilgrims: modernity, migration, and Christian conversion among contemporary Taiwanese Americans / Carolyn Chen
Pt. III: The sacred and social activism
Christianity and civil society in colonial Korea: the civil society movement of Cho Man-sik and the P'yŏngyang YMCA against Japanese colonialism / Kyusik Chang
Between mission and medicine: the early history of Severance Hospital
Yunjae Park
Kagawa Toyohiko (1888-1960) and the Japanese Christian impact on American society / Mark R. Mullins
Pt. IV: Religion and national identity
Preaching modern Japan: national imaginaries and Protestant sermons in Meiji and Taishō Tokyo / Garrett L. Washington
"Smelling of pickled radish, not butter": the wartime search for a Christianity viable in Japan / Gregory Vanderbilt
Diasporic Korean Christianity in the United States, 1922-1941 / David K. Yoo
Protestant Christianity in reform-era China: realities and representations / David Ownby.