Research Catalog

Title

The mission of development : religion and techno-politics in Asia / edited by Catherine Scheer, Philip Fountain, R. Michael Feener.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Additional Authors

• Scheer, Catherine
• Fountain, Philip
• Feener, R. Michael

Description

xiv, 267 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This book interrogates the complex relationships between Christian mission and international development in Asia from the 19th century to the new millennium. Through historically and ethnographically grounded case studies, contributors examine how missionaries have adapted to and shaped the age of development and processes of 'technocratisation', as well as how mission and development have sometimes come to be cast in opposition. The volume takes up an increasingly prominent strand in contemporary research that reverses the prior occlusion of the entanglements between religion and development. It breaks new ground through its analysis of the techno-politics of both development and mission, and by focusing on the importance of engagements and encounters in the field in Asia.

Series Statement

Theology and mission in world Christianity ; volume 10

Uniform Title

Theology and mission in world Christianity ; 10.

Subject

• Missions > Asia
• Missions > Technological innovations > Asia
• Technology > Political aspects
• Economic development > Asia
• Economic development
• Missions
• Asia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Development's missions / R Michael Feener, Catherine Scheer -- The Gospel of intellectuality: indoctrinating yenching educational missionaries in the progressive era / Enyi Hu -- The laymen's foreign missions inquiry, the omi mission, and Imperial Japan: missionary social science and one pre-history of religion and development / Gregory Vanderbilt -- Missionaries and mining: conflicts over development in Eastern Indonesia / Maribeth Erb, Fransiska Widyawati -- The new missionaries of development: the Indonesian Council of Churches and Village Development Projects, 1971-1982 / Noëmi Rui -- "Development missionaries" in the slums of Bangkok: from the thaification to the de-thaification of Catholicism / Giuseppe Bolotta -- Developing faith and character to develop the nation: perspectives from an elite Indonesian Catholic school / Erica M Larson -- Missionaries of a Korean model of development: Pentecostalism, Asian modernity, and the mission of the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Cambodia / Hui-yeon Kim -- Quietist techno-politics: agricultural development and Mennonite mission in Indonesia / Philip Fountain, Laura S. Meltzner Yoder -- Evangelizing entrepreneurship: techno-politics of vocational training in the global anti-human trafficking movement / Elena Shih.

Call Number

JFE 18-9121

ISBN

• 9789004359086
• 9004359087

LCCN

2018014199

OCLC

1023603950

Title

The mission of development : religion and techno-politics in Asia / edited by Catherine Scheer, Philip Fountain, R. Michael Feener.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Theology and mission in world Christianity ; volume 10

Theology and mission in world Christianity ; 10.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Scheer, Catherine, editor.

Fountain, Philip, editor.

Feener, R. Michael, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Mission of development. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004363106 (DLC) 2018016454

Research Call Number

JFE 18-9121