Global Visions of Violence

Agency and Persecution in World Christianity

Jason Bruner, David C. Kirkpatrick, John Corrigan , Omri Elisha

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Rutgers University Press
09 December 2022

Religion & beliefs; Religion & politics; Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict; History of religion; Christianity

In 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.

Contributions by: John Corrigan, Omri Elisha, Hillary Kaell
Edited by: Jason Bruner, David C. Kirkpatrick
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 50g
ISBN: 9781978830837
ISBN 10: 1978830831
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 09 December 2022
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Jason Bruner is an associate professor of religious studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe. David C. Kirkpatrick is an associate professor of religion in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Reviews for Global Visions of Violence: Agency and Persecution in World Christianity

"“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 ""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"