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Book SynopsisIn
Global Visions of Violence, the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaboration that examines Christianity worldwide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By analyzing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the imagination of Christian identity globally, this interdisciplinary volume integrates the perspectives of ethicists, historians, anthropologists, and ethnographers to generate new conversations. Taken together, the chapters in this book challenge scholarship on Christian growth that has not accounted for violence while analyzing persecution narratives that can wield data toward partisan ends. This allows
Global Visions of Violence to push urgent conversations forward, giving voice to projects that illuminate wide and often hidden landscapes that have been shaped by global visions of violence, and seeking solutions that end violence and turn toward the pursuit of justice, peace, and human rights among suffering Christians.
Trade Review"This seminal collection by Jason Bruner and David Kirkpatrick features essential insights and diverse interdisciplinary approaches from leading international scholarly voices. Taken together, they show us how the distinct paths that American Religious History and World Christianity each have charted share common trailheads distinctively marked by 'global visions of violence.' Neither field can be understood without the 'global' aspirations that motivate Christianity or the 'violence' that plagues its history and our present." -- John D. Carlson * co-editor of From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America *
“This timely volume puts faces to the agents behind violence today. By interrogating Christian imaginaries of persecution, suffering, and martyrdom within increasingly polarizing, globalizing spaces—real or imagined—
Global Visions of Violence expertly complexifies the gendered tropes of religious identities and social vulnerabilities within world Christianity.” -- Afe Adogame * co-editor of Fighting in God’s Name: Religion and Conflict in Local-Global Perspectives *
Table of Contents Introduction: Locating Christian Agency in a World of Suffering
JASON BRUNER AND DAVID C. KIRKPATRICK
PART ONE
Geographies
1 Of Numbers and Subjects: Empathic Distance in the American Protestant Missionary Agenda
JOHN CORRIGAN
2 Saved by a Martyr: Media, Suffering, and Power in Evangelical Internationalism
OMRI ELISHA
3 American Theodicy: Human Nature and Natural Disaster
HILLARY KAELL
PART TWO
Bodies
4 Apartheid and World Christianity: How Violence Shapes Theories of “Indigenous” Religion in Twentieth-Century Africa
JOEL CABRITA
5 Danger, Distress, Disease, and Death: Santa Muerte and Her Female Followers
KATE KINGSBURY
6 Modern-Day Martyrs: Coptic Blood and American Christian Kinship
CANDACE LUKASIK
PART THREE
Communities
7 Bishop Colenso Is Dead: White Missionaries and Black Suspicion in Colonial Africa
HARVEY KWIYANI
8 Religion and the Production of Affect in Caste-Based Societies
SUNDER JOHN BOOPALAN
9 From Persecution to Exile: The Church of Almighty God from China
CHRISTIE CHUI-SHAN CHOW
Afterword: Global Visions of Violence—A Response
MELANI McALISTER
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
