The mission of development : religion and techno-politics in Asia /

The mission of development : religion and techno-politics in Asia /

The Mission of Development 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 sh...

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Other Authors: Scheer, Catherine.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Theology and Mission in World Christianity 10.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350.

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

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Call Number: BV3151.3

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Development's Missions /
  • R. Michael Feener and 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 and and 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 and and Laura S. Meitzner Yoder
  • Evangelizing Entrepreneurship: Techno-Politics of Vocational Training in the Global Anti-Human Trafficking Movement /
  • Elena Shih.