In a richly textured investigation of the transformation of Cappadocia during the fourth century, Becoming Christian: The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia examines the local impact of Christianity on tr
Scholars of the history of eastern Christianity will welcome this proceedings from the Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam held in Birmingham, UK in September 2001. There are 1
Magnus Zetterholm uses theoretical insights from the social sciences to deal with the complex issues raised by the parting of Judaism and Christianity, and the accompanying rise of Christian anti-Semi
Basil of Caesarea, his brother Gregory of Nyssa, and their friend Gregory of Nazianzus were prominent churchmen in Roman Cappadocia during the later fourth century. Because of their reputations as dis
Raj (religious studies, Albion College) and Dempsey (religious studies, U. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) argue that expressions of Christianity in India were largely unexplored by scholars and that when
This book takes a new look at the impacts of Christianity in the late-nineteenth-century China. Using American Baptist and English Presbyterian examples in Guangdong province, it examines the scale of
This volume provides a new history of Christianity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Japan by depicting the world of ordinary Japanese Christians. It examines their religious expressions, as well
Delving into the archives of the Zongli Yamen--the Qing dynasty bureau that mediated conflicts between foreign missionaries, local Christians, and local communities--Alan Sweeten presents detailed acc
Having been a university administrator in Korea and a scholar of religion in Canada, Chung seeks explanation for the explosive growth of Christianity in Korea since its introduction there in the 18th
An account of the experiences of European missionaries working in provincial China and of their Chinese converts. From the Franciscan missionaries' viewpoint, the work was isolated and difficult, conv
Selected papers from an international conference of the same name, held in San Francisco in October 1999 and sponsored by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History and the Center for th
Many questions about Christianity in China are answered in this reference work. It comprehensively presents current knowledge of Christianity in the China before 1800, guides the reader through the so
This volume comes out of a major international conference held by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History and the Center for the Pacific Rim at the University of San Francisco in Octo
Religious and ethnic violence between Indonesia's Muslims and Christians escalated dramatically just before and after President Suharto resigned in 1998. In this first major ethnographic study of Chri
For centuries the accommodation between Japan and Christianity has been an uneasy one. Compared with others of its Asian neighbors, the churches in Japan have never counted more than a small minority
