Pub Date : 2023-12-09DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341929
Steve Gerardo Christoffel Gaspersz
This article is an imaginary dialogue that is critical of the thoughts of Arnold N. Radjawane, theologian and pastor of the Protestant Church of Maluku (GPM). This is shown in one of the articles he wrote in the 1960s. For some Muslim clerics in Maluku, the article reveals the idea of Christianization through local culture in Maluku, which they believe had hardened Christian-Muslim cultural relations in Maluku. By utilizing hermeneutic and cultural studies, I will analyze the construction of ethnic and religious identity ideas that are affected by his theological ideas. I apply a contemporary mission perspective that dialectically places Christian-Muslim relations as a form of identity negotiation, which has implications for strengthening cultural dialogue and encourages contextual theological processes for the establishment of human relations in Maluku and Indonesia as a multicultural society.
本文是对马鲁古新教教会（GPM）神学家兼牧师阿诺德-拉贾瓦尼（Arnold N. Radjawane）思想进行批判的想象对话。他在 20 世纪 60 年代撰写的一篇文章就表明了这一点。对于马鲁古的一些穆斯林神职人员来说，这篇文章揭示了通过马鲁古当地文化实现基督教化的思想，他们认为这种思想使基督教与穆斯林在马鲁古的文化关系变得更加僵硬。通过解释学和文化研究，我将分析受其神学思想影响的民族和宗教身份观念的构建。我将运用当代传教视角，辩证地将基督教与穆斯林的关系视为一种身份协商形式，这对加强文化对话和鼓励在马鲁古和印度尼西亚作为一个多元文化社会建立人际关系的背景神学进程具有重要意义。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-09DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341930
Lindsey Huang
Religious cross-cultural workers of color (RCCWC s) from the United States serve in international contexts with their own racialized dynamics. In order to explore how race shapes RCCWC s’ experiences with host nationals, sixteen qualitative interviews with RCCWC s were conducted. Three major findings emerged from the data: (1) sharing a similar racial or ethnic identity with host nationals results in perceived advantages and disadvantages, (2) racialized encounters prompted reflection on racial and ethnic identity, and (3) strategies developed to deal with racialized fatigue contributed to resilience. The findings of this study contribute to the academic literature on race in intercultural contexts and have practical implications for U.S. sending organizations and RCCWC s.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-09DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341927
Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska
The paper examines the key elements characterizing the Polish rulers’ policy towards the Polish-Lithuanian Catholic missionaries in the Orient through three vital events of its history: the establishment and development of the Dominican mission in the Crimea (1625–1659), the plans of John II Casimir Vasa and Louise Marie Gonzaga to found the network of Jesuit stations in three Oriental capitals in the 1650s, and the invigoration of the Polish Jesuits’ activity in Persia connected with John III Sobieski’s attempts to win the support of the Safavids for an anti-Ottoman alliance in the last quarter of the 17th century. These episodes show that the Polish-Lithuanian missionaries from the Dominican order in the Crimea received limited diplomatic and financial assistance from Poland-Lithuania. The two remaining reveal how Polish rulers were able to support the missionaries, who alongside their missionary work were supposed to perform some diplomatic tasks. Between 1653 and 1654, the royal couple invested considerable funds to send particular members of the Societatis Iesu to the Oriental capitals. The following few years proved, however, that Poland-Lithuania could not provide sufficient diplomatic support to ensure the longevity of this project, especially after the outbreak of the mid-seventeenth-century wars on its territory. The increased activity of the Polish Jesuits in Persia was also observed during the war of the Holy League with the Ottoman empire, strictly connected with John III Sobieski’s hopes to win the shah for the anti-Ottoman coalition. The death of the royal patron, followed by the outbreak of the Great Northern War, combined with hostility from the Gregorian Armenians and the increasingly influential Shiʾi clergy, proved to have tragic consequences for the Polish Jesuits’ missionary project in Persia.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341938
J. Enyegue
{"title":"The Politics of Gender Reform in West Africa: Family, Religion, and the State, written by Ludovic Lado","authors":"J. Enyegue","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341938","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":"23 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138591531","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 : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341937
J. Taneti
{"title":"Christianity Remade: The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches, written by Paul Joshua","authors":"J. Taneti","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341937","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":"8 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138591876","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 : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341934
Anthony Egan
{"title":"Competing Catholicisms: The Jesuits, the Vatican and the Making of Postcolonial French Africa, written by Jean Luc Enyegue","authors":"Anthony Egan","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341934","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":"43 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138592232","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 : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341933
Allison Kach-Yawnghwe
{"title":"Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940: How Women Preserved the Power of the Catholic Church in Mexican Political Life, written by Margaret Chowning","authors":"Allison Kach-Yawnghwe","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341933","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":"32 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138590929","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 : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341932
Kenneth R. Ross
{"title":"Scottish Missions to China: Commemorating the Legacy of James Legge (1815–1897), edited by Alexander Chow","authors":"Kenneth R. Ross","doi":"10.1163/15733831-12341932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341932","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42383,"journal":{"name":"Mission Studies","volume":"50 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138593023","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 : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341928
Meiken Buchholz
This article contributes to a deeper understanding of Christian patriotism in China by reflecting on the phenomenon from a pastoral-theological perspective and by considering the sociocultural meaning of patriotism in the Chinese context. Through three examples, the author analyzes different discourses of Christian patriotic identity, which represent a large specter of contemporary Protestant Christianity in China. She demonstrates that the phenomenon of Chinese Christian patriotism primarily concerns moral identity and is only secondarily a political issue.
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