Christian Interculture

Texts and Voices from Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds

Arun W. Jones

• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780271090047
• Topic: Theologie & Religion
• Subtopic: Kirchengeschichte

Despite the remarkable growth of Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in the twentieth century, there is a dearth of primary material produced by these Christians. This volume explores the problem of writing the history of indigenous Christian communities in the Global South.

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.

Table of contents

• COVER Front
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Beyond Troublemakers and Collaborators Historical Research into Newly Evangelized African Catholics
• Chapter 2: Completing the Line of Communication On Hearing the Voice of the “Native Christian”
• Chapter 3: In Search of the Women inthe Archival Sources The Case of Maria Maraga
• Chapter 4: In Search of Kirishitan Women Martyrs’ Voices in the Early Modern Jesuit Mission Literature in Japan
• Chapter 5: Native Christianity and Communal Justice in Colonial Mexico An Ambivalent History
• Chapter 6: Ocaña’s Mondragón in the “Eighth Wonder of the World
• Chapter 7: They Talk. We Listen? Native American Christians in Speech and on Paper
• Chapter 8: Native Christians Writing Back? The Periodicals of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente in the Early Twentieth-Century Philippines
• Chapter 9: “For You, Most Reverend Father,and for Our Archives”Recovering the Voice of Bishop Aloys Bigirumwami in Late Colonial Rwanda
• Index