World Christianity : critical concepts in religious studies / edited by Elizabeth Koepping.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v.1 -- Excerpt from 'nature is to culture as praying is to suing : legal pluralism in an American suburb' / Carol J. Greenhouse -- From pagan to Christian priesthood / Dave Passi -- Liturgical adaptation / P. Abega -- Excerpt from 'beliefs of Catholics in Asia' / Edmund Chia -- Excerpt from 'the Bible and colonialism in the global context' / Pui-Lan Kwok -- Excerpt from 'polarity or partnership? retelling the story of Martha and Mary from Asian women's perspective' / Ranjini Rebera -- Han-laden women : Korean 'comfort women' and women in Judges 9-21 / Yani Yoo -- Excerpt from 'hermeneutical drama on the colonial stage : liminal space and creativity in Colenso's Commentary on Romans' / Jonathan A. Draper -- Challenging the Christian monopoly on the Bible : an aspect of the encounter between Christianity and Malegasy traditional religion in contemporary Madagascar / Georges Razafindrakoto and Knut Holter -- Ritual / Wayne A. Meeks -- Office charisma in early Christian Ephesus / Anthony J. Blasi -- A complete history of early Christianity : taking the 'heretics' seriously / Majella Franzmann -- Christianity and local culture in Late Roman Africa / Peter Brown -- Excerpt from 'mountain Constantines : the Christianization of Aksum and Iberia' / Christopher Haas -- Excerpt from 'Thomas Christians and the Thomas tradition' / Robert Frykenberg -- Ch'ing-Tsing : Nestorian tablet : eulogizing the propagation of the illustrious religion in China, with a preface / composed by a priest of the Syriac church, 781 AD -- Paganism in the Greek world at the end of Antiquity : the case of rural Anatolia and Greece / Frank R. Trombley -- Rural people, the church in Kongo and the Afroamerican diaspora (1491-1750) / John K. Thornton -- 'The best thus far discovered' : the Japanese in the letters of Francisco Xavier / Robert Richmond Ellis -- Misreading and its creativity in Sino-Western cultural communication at the end of the Ming Dynasty / Sun Shangyang -- Crossing gender boundaries : Tupi and European women in the eyes of Claude d'Abbeville / Laura Fishman -- The significance of the manuscript / Antonio-Ma Rosales -- Wu Li (1632-1718) and the first Chinese Christian poetry / Jonathan Chaves -- 'Come vero prencipe Catolico' : the Capuchins and the rulers of Soyo in the late seventeenth century / Richard Gray -- Bounded identities : women and religion in colonial Brazil, 1550-1750 / Carole A. Myscofski -- Excerpt from 'the church at Nanrantsouak : Sébastien Râle, S.J, and the Wabanaki of Maine's Kennebec River' / William A. Clark, SJ -- Excerpt from '"a dangerous zeal" : Catholic missions to slaves in the French Antilles, 1635-1800' / Sue Peabody -- Except from 'a Lübeck prophet in local and Lutheran context' / Jürgen Beyer -- Christian virgins in eighteenth-century Sichuan / Robert E. Entenmann -- Excerpt from 'conversations in Tarangambadi : caring for the self in early eighteenth century South India' / Eugene F. Irschick -- Conversion, identity, and the Indian missionary / Keely McCarthy --

v.2 -- The parsis of Bombay and Christian conversion, 1839-1845 / Jesse S. Palsetia -- Cultivation, Christianity and colonialism : towards a new African genesis / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- Catholics in protest : lower-caste Christianity in early colonial Madras / Aparna Balachandran -- Excerpt from 'Christianity without civilization : Anglican sources for an alternative nineteenth-century mission methodology' / Sara H. Somer -- Missionary maternalism : gendered images of the Holy Spirit Sisters (SSpS) in colonial New Guinea / Nancy Lutkehaus -- Young converts : Christian missions, gender and youth in Onitsha, Nigeria 1880-1929 / Misty L. Bastian -- Excerpt from 'devils, familiars and Spaniards : spheres of power and the supernatural in the world of Seberina Candelaria and her village in early 19th century Philippines' / Greg Bankoff -- Conversion by affiliation : the history of the Karo Batak Protestant Church / Rita Smith Kipp -- The making of an ethnic collectivity : Irish Catholic immigrants in nineteenth-century Christchurch / Lyndon A. Fraser -- The limits of religious ascription : baptized Tatars and the revision of 'apostasy,' 1840s-1905 / Paul W. Werth -- Religion and modernization in 19th century Greece / Nikos Kokosalakis -- Indians and the breakdown of the Spanish mission system in California / George Harwood Phillips -- Hidden but real : the vital contribution of Biblewomen to the rapid growth of Korean Protestantism, 1892-1945 / Christine Sungjin Chang -- Kimbanguism and the question of syncretism in Zaïre / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Excerpt from 'in the absence of priests : young women as apostles to the poor, Chile 1922-1932' / Gertrude M. Yeager -- Reinterpreting Chilean Pentecostalism / Juan Sepulveda -- Glossolalia and possession among Pentecostal groups of the Mezzogiorno / Maria Pia di Bella -- The Lord of Heaven versus Jesus Christ : Christian sectarian violence in late-nineteenth-century South China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee -- Revolutionary anticlericalism and hegemonic processes in an Andalusian town, August 1936 / Richard Maddox -- Orthodox mission in tropical Africa / Stephen Hayes -- The spirit and scapular : Pentecostal and Catholic interactions in Norther Nyanga district, Zimbabwe in the 1950s and early 1960s / David J. Maxwell --

v.3 -- Coptic cultural nationalism / S. S. Hasan -- Ritual, history and identity in Goa -- Fellowship in contemporary religion and ethics : report on oral enquiry into beliefs of village people in Catholic diocese of Zhouzi / You Xilin and Chen Lianguo -- The imitation of Christ in Bicol, Philippines / Fenella Cannell -- The status of Christian women in Kerala / Susan Visvanathan -- Contested masculine spaces in Greek Orthodoxy / Eleni Sotiriu -- Gender and change in an African immigrant church : an anthropologist and a (former) prophetess reflect / Deidre Helen Crumbley and Gloria Malake Cline-Smythe -- Excerpt form 'faith, fashion and family : religion, aesthetics, identity and social organization in Strasbourg' / Atwood D. Gaines -- The feminization and professionalization of ordained ministry within the Mâ'ohi Protestant church in French Polynesia / Gwendoline Malogne-Fer -- Experiencing spirit : religious processes of interaction and unification in Aboriginal Australia / Fiona Magowan -- Excerpt from 'religion as resistance in Jamaican peasant life : the Baptist Church, revival worldview and Rastafari movement' / Jean Besson -- Structural obstacles to grassroots pastoral practice : the case of a base community in urban Brazil / Manuel A. Vásquez -- Inuit Pentecostal and evangelical movements in the Canadian Eastern Arctic : the case of the healing the land rituals developed by the Canada Awakening Ministries / Frédéric Laugrand and Jarich Oosten -- 'Culture' as a tool and an obstacle : missionary encounters in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan / Mathijs Pelkmans -- The faith-healers of the Assemblies of God in Burkina Faso : taking responsibility for diseases related to 'living together' / Pierre-Joseph Laurent -- The fundamentals of fertility : cosmology and conversion in a southwestern Nigerian Town / Elisha P. Renne -- Jesus Christ as trickster in the religion of contemporary Bushmen / Mathias Guenthier -- Conversion to Protestantism among urban immigrants in Taiwan / Hsing-Kuang Chao -- Christianity as a new religion : charisma, minor founders, and indigenous movements / Mark R. Mullins -- The hidden sphere of religious searches in the Soviet Union : independent religious communities in Leningrad from the 1960s to the 1970s / Olga Tchepournaya -- American evangelicalism in Zimbabwe / Paul Gifford -- Excerpt from 'the persistence of apocalypticism within a denominationalizing sect : the apocalyptic fringe groups of Seventh-day Adventism / Ronald Lawson -- Native evangelism in Central Mexico / Hugo G. Nutini -- 'Heathendom' and the powers of darkness : on the role of the devil in the preaching of the missionaries of the Norddeutsche Missionsgesellschaft in the nineteenth century and the contemporary African churches / Birgit Meyer -- The transnationalisation of Brazilian Pentecostalism : the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God / Paul Freston -- Certain knowledge : the encounter of global fundamentalism and local Christianity in urban south India / Lional Caplan -- Joana's story : syncretism at the actor's level / André Droogers --

Excerpt from 'nakedness and clothing in early encounters between Aboriginal people of Central Australia, missionaries and anthropologists' / Peggy Brock -- To honor her head : hats as symbol of women's position in three evangelical churches in Edinburgh, Scotland / Ruth Borker -- The immediacy of eternity : time and transformation in a Roman Catholic convent / Rebecca J. Lester -- Women living between the church and the state : a case study of Catholic women religious in contemporary rural China / Li Wenwen -- Excerpt from 'pilgrimage and patronage in Brazil : a paradigm for social relations and religious diversity' / Sidney M. Greenfield and Antonio Mourão Cavalcante -- Division and demolition at the tomb of a beloved saint : the evolving character of an Orthodox Christian pilgrim centre in India / Alex Gath -- Performing pilgrimage : Walsingham and the ritual construction of irony / Simon Coleman and John Elsner --- Persistent peregrination : from Sun Dance to Catholic pilgrimage among Canadian Prairie Indians / Alan Morinis -- Bernard Mizeki : missionary saints and the creation of Christian communities / Dana L. Robert -- Excerpt from 'John Wesley slept here : American shrines and American Methodists' / Thomas A. Tweed -- Catholic hymns of Michigan Indians / Gertrude Prokosch Kurath -- Uduk faith in a five-note scale : mission music and the spread of the Gospel / Wendy James -- Excerpt from '"almost persuaded now to believe" : gospel songs in New Zealand evangelical theology and practice' / Bryan D. Gilling -- Women as religious and political praise singers within African institutions : the case of the CCAP Blantyre Synod and political parties in Malawi / Clara Henderson and Lisa Gilman -- Excerpt from 'dalit theology in Tamil Christian folk music : a transformative liturgy by James Theophilus Appavoo' / Zoe C. Sherinian -- Syncretic objects : material culture of syncretism among the Paiwan Catholics, Taiwan / Chang-Kwo Tan -- Introduction to Christianity in Indian dance forms / Francis Peter Barboza -- Beyond Christendom : Protestant - Catholic distinctions in coming global Christianity / D. Paul Sullins -- Religion and the awakening of indigenous people in Latin America / Cristián Parker Gumucio -- Half a century of African Christian theologies : elements of the emerging agenda for the twenty-first century / Tinyiko Sam Maluleke.