Encountering Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encountering Modernity write by Keyan G. Tomaselli. This book was released on 2006. Encountering Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Encountering Modernity
Encountering Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encountering Modernity write by Albert L. Park. This book was released on 2014-03-31. Encountering Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of Catholicism and Protestantism in China, Japan, and Korea has been told in great detail. The existing literature is especially rich in documenting church and missionary activities as well as how varied regions and cultures have translated Christian ideas and practices. Less evident, however, are studies that contextualize Christianity within the larger economic, political, social, and cultural developments in each of the three countries and its diasporas. The contributors to Encountering Modernity address such concerns and collectively provide insights into Christianity’s role in the development of East Asia and as it took shape among East Asians in the United States. The work brings together studies of Christianity in China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan and its diasporas to expand the field through new angles of vision and interpretation. Its mode of analysis not only results in a deeper understanding of Christianity, but also produces more informed and nuanced histories of East Asian countries that take seriously the structures and sensibilities of religion—broadly understood and within a national and transnational context. It critically investigates how Protestant Christianity was negotiated and interpreted by individuals in Korea, China (with a brief look at Taiwan), and Japan starting in the nineteenth century as all three countries became incorporated into the global economy and the international nation-state system anchored by the West. People in East Asia from various walks of life studied and, in some cases, embraced principles of Christianity as a way to frame and make meaningful the economic, political, and social changes they experienced because of modernity. Encountering Modernity makes a significant contribution by moving beyond issues of missiology and church history to ask how Christianity represented an encounter with modernity that set into motion tremendous changes throughout East Asia and in transnational diasporic communities in the United States.
Encountering Modernity
Encountering Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encountering Modernity write by Meei-Hwa Chern. This book was released on 2000. Encountering Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Betraying Spinoza
Betraying Spinoza - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Betraying Spinoza write by Rebecca Goldstein. This book was released on 2009-01-16. Betraying Spinoza available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Part of the Jewish Encounter series In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems in the history of Western philosophy, so ahead of its time that scientists today, from string theorists to neurobiologists, count themselves among Spinoza’s progeny. In Betraying Spinoza, Rebecca Goldstein sets out to rediscover the flesh-and-blood man often hidden beneath the veneer of rigorous rationality, and to crack the mystery of the breach between the philosopher and his Jewish past. Goldstein argues that the trauma of the Inquisition’ s persecution of its forced Jewish converts plays itself out in Spinoza’s philosophy. The excommunicated Spinoza, no less than his excommunicators, was responding to Europe’ s first experiment with racial anti-Semitism. Here is a Spinoza both hauntingly emblematic and deeply human, both heretic and hero—a surprisingly contemporary figure ripe for our own uncertain age. From the Hardcover edition.
Encountering Development
Encountering Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encountering Development write by Arturo Escobar. This book was released on 2012. Encountering Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author.
