
Christian Interculture
Texts and Voices from Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds
Edited by Arun W. Jones
Christian Interculture
Texts and Voices from Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds
Edited by Arun W. Jones
“Breaking new ground in the study of Christian historiography beyond its Eurocentric underpinnings to encompass the diverse but hitherto overlooked Christian historiographies across the Majority World, Christian Interculture draws attention to the ignored and often suppressed endeavors by indigenous Christians to define Christianity in their own voices beyond the colonial expressions that were imposed on them, with important intercultural and interreligious implications for shaping the emergent historiographies of World Christianities.”
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Many such indigenous Christian groups pass along knowledge orally, and colonial forces have often not deemed their ideas and activities worth preserving. In some instances, documentation from these communities has been destroyed by people or nature. Highlighting the creative solutions that historians have found to this problem, the essays in this volume detail the strategies employed in discerning the perspectives, ideas, activities, motives, and agency of indigenous Christians. The contributors approach the problem on a case-by-case basis, acknowledging the impact of diverse geographical, cultural, political, and ecclesiastical factors.
This volume will inspire historians of World Christianity to critically interrogate—and imaginatively use—existing Western and indigenous documentary material in writing the history of Christianity in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania.
In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include J. J. Carney, Adrian Hermann, Paul Kollman, Kenneth Mills, Esther Mombo, Mrinalini Sebastian, Christopher Vecsey, Haruko Nawata Ward, and Yanna Yannakakis.
“Breaking new ground in the study of Christian historiography beyond its Eurocentric underpinnings to encompass the diverse but hitherto overlooked Christian historiographies across the Majority World, Christian Interculture draws attention to the ignored and often suppressed endeavors by indigenous Christians to define Christianity in their own voices beyond the colonial expressions that were imposed on them, with important intercultural and interreligious implications for shaping the emergent historiographies of World Christianities.”
“Jones has edited a work that is a meaningful addition to the postcolonial conversation, and this book invites a continuation of the dialogue by way of research opportunities.”
Arun W. Jones is Associate Professor of World Evangelism and Director of the Master of Theology Program at Emory University. He is the author of Missionary Christianity and Local Religion: American Evangelicalism in North India, 1836–1870, and Christian Missions in the American Empire: Episcopalians in Northern Luzon, the Philippines, 1902–1946.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Arun W. Jones
Methodological Reflections
Chapter 1 Beyond Troublemakers and Collaborators: Historical Research into Newly
Evangelized African Catholics
Paul Kollman
Chapter 2 Completing the Line of Communication: On Hearing the Voice of the “Native Christian”
Mrinalini Sebastian
Chapter 3 In Search of the Women in the Archival Sources: The Case of Maria Maraga
Esther Mombo
Early Colonial Catholicism
Chapter 4 In Search of Kirishitan Women Martyrs’ Voices in the Early Modern Jesuit Mission Literature in Japan
Haruko Nawata Ward
Chapter 5 Native Christianity and Communal Justice in Colonial Mexico: An Ambivalent History
Yanna Yannakakis
Chapter 6 Ocaña’s Mondragón in the “Eighth Wonder of the World”
Kenneth Mills
Christian Nationalism
Chapter 7 They Talk. We Listen? Native American Christians in Speech and on Paper
Christopher Vecsey
Chapter 8 Native Christians Writing Back? The Periodicals of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente in the Early Twentieth-Century Philippines
Adrian Hermann
Chapter 9 “For You, Most Reverend Father, and for Our Archives”: Recovering the Voice of Bishop Aloys Bigirumwami in Late Colonial Rwanda
J. J. Carney
Conclusion
Arun W. Jones
List of Contributors
Index
Methodological Reflections
Chapter 1 Beyond Troublemakers and Collaborators: Historical Research into Newly
Evangelized African Catholics
Paul Kollman
Chapter 2 Completing the Line of Communication: On Hearing the Voice of the “Native Christian”
Mrinalini Sebastian
Chapter 3 In Search of the Women in the Archival Sources: The Case of Maria Maraga
Esther Mombo
Early Colonial Catholicism
Chapter 4 In Search of Kirishitan Women Martyrs’ Voices in the Early Modern Jesuit Mission Literature in Japan
Haruko Nawata Ward
Chapter 5 Native Christianity and Communal Justice in Colonial Mexico: An Ambivalent History
Yanna Yannakakis
Chapter 6 Ocaña’s Mondragón in the “Eighth Wonder of the World”
Kenneth Mills
Christian Nationalism
Chapter 7 They Talk. We Listen? Native American Christians in Speech and on Paper
Christopher Vecsey
Chapter 8 Native Christians Writing Back? The Periodicals of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente in the Early Twentieth-Century Philippines
Adrian Hermann
Chapter 9 “For You, Most Reverend Father, and for Our Archives”: Recovering the Voice of Bishop Aloys Bigirumwami in Late Colonial Rwanda
J. J. Carney
Conclusion
Arun W. Jones
List of Contributors
Index
Download a PDF sample chapter here: Introduction
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