Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/jworlchri.13.1.0046
Dale T. Irvin
{"title":"Special Report on “Decolonizing Churches”","authors":"Dale T. Irvin","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.13.1.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.13.1.0046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88957381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0303
Byung Ho Choi
{"title":"Imagining Persecution: Why American Christians Believe There Is a Global War against Their Faith by Jason Bruner.","authors":"Byung Ho Choi","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0303","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76068506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0228
Kirsten van der Ham
After Indonesia’s war of independence, a flow of migration was triggered to the Netherlands, the former colonizer. Some of the Christians who migrated to the Netherlands founded their own congregations in Dutch society. The present article regards how these Indonesian congregations shaped their use of the Bible, in light of their community formation under the influence of migration, through a heuristic comparison with the results of research conducted by Foppen et al. on Bible readers in the Netherlands at large. The empirical study of three Indonesian congregations shows that one of the key elements of the Bible usage of ordinary readers in the three respective congregations is that they view the Bible as a guide to life. They further appreciate the polyphony of biblical texts, since it enables contextual theologies. Further results regard preferred language, Bible translation, and digitalization.
{"title":"A Familiar Book in a (Un)Familiar Context: A Comparative Qualitative Study on Bible Usage of Indonesian Congregations in the Netherlands","authors":"Kirsten van der Ham","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0228","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 After Indonesia’s war of independence, a flow of migration was triggered to the Netherlands, the former colonizer. Some of the Christians who migrated to the Netherlands founded their own congregations in Dutch society. The present article regards how these Indonesian congregations shaped their use of the Bible, in light of their community formation under the influence of migration, through a heuristic comparison with the results of research conducted by Foppen et al. on Bible readers in the Netherlands at large. The empirical study of three Indonesian congregations shows that one of the key elements of the Bible usage of ordinary readers in the three respective congregations is that they view the Bible as a guide to life. They further appreciate the polyphony of biblical texts, since it enables contextual theologies. Further results regard preferred language, Bible translation, and digitalization.","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82585421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0305
Christie Chui-Shan Chow
{"title":"Christian Social Activism and Rule of Law in Chinese Societies, edited by Fenggang Yang and Chris White.","authors":"Christie Chui-Shan Chow","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78927425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0212
Chongpongmeren Jamir
The appropriation of a religious faith in a particular context involves its interpretation within a cultural web of significance. This involves the use of signs and symbols that have acquired specific meanings in a given culture; an analysis of these signs and symbols reveals realities in the society. This article deals with symbolism pertaining to Christianity among the Naga people in Northeast India. Taking the popular slogan “Nagaland/lim for Christ” as the starting point, the article discusses how such symbols reveal a complex interaction of Christian faith and the culture of the land, resulting in the formation of a distinct form of Christianity. The article argues that the slogan is a symbolic representation of how the appropriation of Christianity among the Naga people involves both the articulation of and creation of realities in the culture.
{"title":"“Nagaland/lim for Christ”: Semiotics in Christianity among the Naga People in Northeast India","authors":"Chongpongmeren Jamir","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0212","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The appropriation of a religious faith in a particular context involves its interpretation within a cultural web of significance. This involves the use of signs and symbols that have acquired specific meanings in a given culture; an analysis of these signs and symbols reveals realities in the society. This article deals with symbolism pertaining to Christianity among the Naga people in Northeast India. Taking the popular slogan “Nagaland/lim for Christ” as the starting point, the article discusses how such symbols reveal a complex interaction of Christian faith and the culture of the land, resulting in the formation of a distinct form of Christianity. The article argues that the slogan is a symbolic representation of how the appropriation of Christianity among the Naga people involves both the articulation of and creation of realities in the culture.","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77449681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0251
Weston Bland
This article explores narratives of slavery written by Christian missionaries in the Nile Valley in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on works produced by the Italian Comboni mission, American Presbyterians, and the British Church Missionary Society, I approach missionary narratives of Nile Valley slavery as a distinct genre of storytelling shaped by the unique position of the missionary as a narrator and the symbolic utility of slavery as a vehicle for conveying suffering. Reading these sources critically, I argue that the slaves and former slaves that missionaries depicted in their writings served as a discursive canvas for missionaries to situate their activities in a world of suffering and violence. By positioning mission work alongside the material trials of slavery, missionaries lent a temporal urgency to their spiritual projects and justified their relationship with colonial violence.
{"title":"“A Friend of God and the Poor Wretched Blacks”: Violence, Race, and Redemption in Missionary Narratives of Nile Valley Slavery","authors":"Weston Bland","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0251","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores narratives of slavery written by Christian missionaries in the Nile Valley in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on works produced by the Italian Comboni mission, American Presbyterians, and the British Church Missionary Society, I approach missionary narratives of Nile Valley slavery as a distinct genre of storytelling shaped by the unique position of the missionary as a narrator and the symbolic utility of slavery as a vehicle for conveying suffering. Reading these sources critically, I argue that the slaves and former slaves that missionaries depicted in their writings served as a discursive canvas for missionaries to situate their activities in a world of suffering and violence. By positioning mission work alongside the material trials of slavery, missionaries lent a temporal urgency to their spiritual projects and justified their relationship with colonial violence.","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75870606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0312
Richard Fox Young
{"title":"Discourses of Indigenous Christian Elites in Colonial Societies in Asia and Africa around 1900: A Documentary Sourcebook from Selected Journals, edited by Klaus Koschorke et al.","authors":"Richard Fox Young","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73719615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0314
S. Yong Lee
{"title":"Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea, by Hyaeweol Choi.","authors":"S. Yong Lee","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78129374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0280
Abimbola Adelakun
This essay explores the ongoing formations of global Pentecostalism by tracing a route through which some of the practices of exchange travel: Amazon.com. Noting that the “spirits” of globalization, modernity, and capitalism now enable a rapid move of the religious spirit, I spotlight the experiences of four Nigerian ministers who list merchandise of prayer (or “prayer merch”) in the form of books and spiritual warfare prayer manuals for sale on the online marketplace. With personal interviews and a content analysis of the reviews and ratings of their works, I consider the commodification of the practical African theology of prayers, the tactics of promotion, the ethos of Black spirituality that facilitates sales, and the balancing of divine encounter and enterprise.
{"title":"“Thank God for Amazon.com”: Spiritual Warfare, African Theology, and Prayer Merch","authors":"Abimbola Adelakun","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0280","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay explores the ongoing formations of global Pentecostalism by tracing a route through which some of the practices of exchange travel: Amazon.com. Noting that the “spirits” of globalization, modernity, and capitalism now enable a rapid move of the religious spirit, I spotlight the experiences of four Nigerian ministers who list merchandise of prayer (or “prayer merch”) in the form of books and spiritual warfare prayer manuals for sale on the online marketplace. With personal interviews and a content analysis of the reviews and ratings of their works, I consider the commodification of the practical African theology of prayers, the tactics of promotion, the ethos of Black spirituality that facilitates sales, and the balancing of divine encounter and enterprise.","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77142174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0307
Guilherme Brasil de Souza, Stephen Di Trolio Coakley, Luke Donner, “Afia” Sun Kim, Jun-Yeb Lee, Kwabena Sarfo-Panin, Casey Smith
{"title":"World Christianity and Indigenous Experience: A Global History, 1500–2000, by David Lindenfeld.","authors":"Guilherme Brasil de Souza, Stephen Di Trolio Coakley, Luke Donner, “Afia” Sun Kim, Jun-Yeb Lee, Kwabena Sarfo-Panin, Casey Smith","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.2.0307","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78364556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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