Global Visions of Violence

Agency and Persecution in World Christianity

Jason Bruner, David C. Kirkpatrick (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

222 Seiten

2022
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3083-7 (ISBN)

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By analysing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the imagination of Christian identity globally, this interdisciplinary volume integrates the perspectives of ethicists, historians, anthropologists, and ethnographers to generate new conversations.

In Global Visions of Violence, the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaboration that examines Christianity worldwide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By analyzing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the imagination of Christian identity globally, this interdisciplinary volume integrates the perspectives of ethicists, historians, anthropologists, and ethnographers to generate new conversations. Taken together, the chapters in this book challenge scholarship on Christian growth that has not accounted for violence while analyzing persecution narratives that can wield data toward partisan ends. This allows Global Visions of Violence to push urgent conversations forward, giving voice to projects that illuminate wide and often hidden landscapes that have been shaped by global visions of violence, and seeking solutions that end violence and turn toward the pursuit of justice, peace, and human rights among suffering Christians.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	17.11.2022
Co-Autor	John Corrigan, Omri Elisha, Hillary Kaell
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	50 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-9788-3083-1 / 1978830831
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3083-7 / 9781978830837
Zustand	Neuware