Research Catalog

Title

Encountering modernity : Christianity in East Asia and Asian America / edited by Albert L. Park and David K. Yoo.

Publication

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Los Angeles, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Yoo, David
• Park, Albert L.

Description

viii, 342 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This book brings together articles that document and analyze the encounter of Christianity with modernity in East Asia and Asian America in the late 19th and throughout the 20th century. Each essay situates the institutions and ideas of Christianity in broad political, economic, social, and cultural contexts that intersect China, Korea, Japan and the United States.

Series Statement

Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Subject

• Christianity > East Asia
• East Asians > United States > Religion
• East Asian Americans > Religion
• Christianity > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9780824839475 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0824839471 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013030109

OCLC

• 855491736
• SCSB-13937121

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library