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Yes, you can access Encountering Modernity by Albert L. Park, David K. Yoo, Russell Leong, Albert L. Park, David K. Yoo, Russell Leong in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Asian American Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Year

2014

ISBN

9780824840174

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Asian American Studies

Index

Social Sciences

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Modernity and the Materiality of Religion
Part I. Economy and Religion
1. A Sacred Economy of Value and Production Capitalism and Protestantism in Early Modern Korea (1885–1919)
2. Taking Jesus Public The Neoliberal Transformation of Korean Megachurches
Part II. Religion and Social Relations
3. Guanxi and Gospel Mapping Christian Networks in South China
4. Accidental Pilgrims Modernity, Migration, and Christian Conversion among Contemporary Taiwanese Americans
Part III. The Sacred and Social Activism
5. Christianity and Civil Society in Colonial Korea The Civil Society Movement of Cho Man-sik and the P’yŏngyang YMCA against Japanese Colonialism
6. Between Mission and Medicine The Early History of Severance Hospital
7. Kagawa Toyohiko (1888–1960) and the Japanese Christian Impact on American Society
Part IV. Religion and National Identity
8. Preaching Modern Japan National Imaginaries and Protestant Sermons in Meiji and Taishō Tokyo
9. “Smelling of Pickled Radish, Not Butter” The Wartime Search for a Christianity Viable in Japan
10. Diasporic Korean Christianity in the United States, 1922–1941
11. Protestant Christianity in Reform-Era China Realities and Representations
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index