{"title":"Religiones y espacios públicos en América Latina, by Renée de la Torre et Pablo Seman (eds.)","authors":"Thierry Maire","doi":"10.1163/18748945-bja10039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-bja10039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"327 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80389096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Des musulmans dans une église chrétienne : l’ Église Universelle du Royaume de Dieu au Sénégal, by Fabienne Samson","authors":"Y. Droz","doi":"10.1163/18748945-bja10034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-bja10034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89946419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural Deference, Community Survival","authors":"Bernard L. Brown","doi":"10.1163/18748945-bja10042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-bja10042","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 After the military defeat of the Tamil insurgency in Sri Lanka, nationalist sectors backed by Sinhala Buddhist ideology turned to religious minorities in search of new enemies of the State. These have included Muslims and Evangelical Christians who are described as foreign intruders that contaminate the traditions of the nation. Catholics have been spared of accusations of proselytism and the introduction of foreign cultures partly due to the Church leadership’s explicit stance against Evangelical missionary activities and its support of Sinhala nationalist discourse. Catholic communities of Sri Lanka thus find themselves in an ambiguous position: incorporated into the national citizenry, yet a visible minority anxious not to become marginalized like other religious minorities.","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90360178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Convertir l’ empereur ? Journal du missionnaire et médecin Georges-Louis Liengme dans le Sud-Est africain 1893-1895, introduction et appareil critique, by Éric Morier-Genoud","authors":"M. Cahen","doi":"10.1163/18748945-bja10040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-bja10040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90579289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"At the Margins of the State","authors":"S. Sahoo","doi":"10.1163/18748945-bja10041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-bja10041","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 How is Pentecostalism changing the notions and experiences of citizenship at the margins of the state? Addressing this question, the paper argues that in the context of south Rajasthan, the Pentecostal church has played a vital role in combining the values of both pedagogical and governmental paradigms of citizenship not just to fill in the absence of the state but also to create an alternative model of citizenship that goes beyond the mere political rights. This alternative model of ‘Christian citizenship’ has effectively combined development with Pentecostal moral values. Furthermore, the Pentecostal church, by acting as a pedagogical agent, by organising active social ministries, and by developing ethical subjectivities among the Bhils, has engendered new notions of agency, autonomy and citizenship at the margins of the state.","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82662654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Materializing magic power: Chinese popular religion in villages and cities, by Wei-Ping Lin","authors":"Ming-chun Ku","doi":"10.1163/18748945-03403001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-03403001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84041168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deepening a Sense of Being Taiwanese","authors":"Shu-ling Yeh, Ying Chang","doi":"10.1163/18748945-bja10035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-bja10035","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper examines how the Amis, the largest indigenous community in Taiwan, draw on their Catholic faith to understand what it means to be Taiwanese. For over a century, the Amis were treated as marginalised citizens by the Japanese colonial government and the Han-Chinese Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo. Their predicament changed when political priorities shifted from cultural assimilation to multiculturalism after 1987. Successive Taiwanese governments since then have actively sought to incorporate indigenous culture as a core part of Taiwanese identity. Focusing on how the Amis intertwined their adopted Catholic notions and practices with pre-Christian ideas, social structure, and rituals, this paper demonstrates the ways in which the Amis carve out a place for themselves in wider Taiwanese society. It adds to ongoing discussions about the relationship between conversion and cultural transformation in Oceania by arguing that Catholicism empowered the Amis to deepen their sense of belonging to the island republic and, for the first time, assert themselves fully as Taiwanese.","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"9 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77565192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le travail et l’ islam, généalogie(s) d’ une problématique, by Hicham Benaissa","authors":"J. Barou","doi":"10.1163/18748945-bja10037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-bja10037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75001752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Traffics of the Sacred and the Secular: Christianity and Citizenship in Asia","authors":"Sin Wen Lau","doi":"10.1163/18748945-bja10032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-bja10032","url":null,"abstract":"Christianity in Asia, particularly its relationshipwith the state, offers an important counterpoint to studies of global Christianity.While Christians constitute the majority in countries like the Philippines, Christianity is largely a minority religion in the region.1 Christian groups in Asia are compelled to engage secular institutional structures, goals, and aspirations in order to negotiate a space for themselves in the nation-states they inhabit. These everyday struggles challenge understandings of Christian groups in the global south as operating independently of the state, phenomena that draw primarily from studies on Christian groups in Africa and Latin America andwhich have been used as evidence of an emerging Christendom that transcends the state.2 The Asian Christian experience is diverse and complex. While some Asian states like Singapore and the People’s Republic of China are staunchly secular in orientation and largely see themselves as adopting a balanced approach in managing the different religious faiths operating within respective national boundaries, others such as Sri Lanka and Thailand incorporate religious myths to reinforce political legitimacy and religious elements into governing approaches, at times privileging one religious faith over the other. Christian responses to this uneven political terrain is varied. Some groups choose towork within state-sponsored frameworks while others actively manage the state through careful positioning and deliberate compartmentalisation of church activities. At times, Christian groups in Asia have also contested state goals and expectations.3 These struggles by Christian groups to engage nation-states are","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89644305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Because We Are Christian and Filipino","authors":"J. Cornelio, Prince Kennex Aldama","doi":"10.1163/18748945-bja10036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18748945-bja10036","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 As part of his campaign against criminality, President Duterte has called for the reinstatement of the death penalty in the Philippines. Its most vocal supporters are evangelical and independent Christian leaders and lawmakers. Although a religious minority, these entities are politically influential. In this article we show that they support the death penalty because they are Christian and Filipino. They articulate their support in two respects: it is biblical and it must be administered on heinous crimes for the sake of innocent people. We unpack these statements in terms of a religious citizenship that disregards the reality of religious diversity in Philippine society.","PeriodicalId":41402,"journal":{"name":"Social Sciences and Missions-Sciences Sociales et Missions","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85498505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}