Alterity and the Evasion of Justice: Explorations of the "Other" in World Christianity (World Christianity and Public Religion, 5) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506491316 ISBN 13: 9781506491318

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2023

Synopsis

As a contribution to the Fortress series on World Christianity as Public Religion, this volume delves into questions of religious alterity and justice in World Christianity. This volume asks what histories, practices, or identities have been left invisible in the field of World Christianity, and emphasizes liberationist concerns to consider what the field has overlooked or misrepresented. It recognizes that World Christianity scholarship has elevated voices of marginalized Christians from the Global South and challenged Eurocentric modes in the study of religion, but scholars of World Christianity must also attend to the margins of the field itself. Attention to the overlooked "other" within World Christianity scholarship reveals communities that have been excluded and questions of justice within the Global South that have been neglected. This volume points to gender, sexuality, and race as intersectional themes ripe for exploration within the field, while also identifying areas of study that have fallen outside the dominant World Christianity narrative, such as the Middle East and the theological expression of indigenous and aboriginal communities in the aftermath of European colonization. The contributors to this volume advance a robust intercontinental conversation around alterity and the evasion of justice in World Christianity.

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About the Authors

Deanna Ferree Womack is associate professor of history of religions and interfaith studies at Emory University's Candler School of Theology.

Raimundo C. Barreto is associate professor of World Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the editor of the Fortress Press series World Christianity and Public Religion. His most recent book is Protesting Poverty: Protestants, Social Ethics, and the Poor in Brazil (Baylor University Press, 2023).

James Elisha Taneti is director of the Syngman Rhee Global Mission Center for Christian Education and assistant professor of World Christianity at Union Presbyterian Seminary. He has authored A History of Telugu Christianity: A Bibliography and Caste, Gender, and Christianity in Colonial India: Telugu Women in Mission.

Moses O. Biney is assistant professor of religion and society at New York Theological Seminary and author of From Africa to America: Religion and Adaptation among Ghanaian Immigrants in New York (New York University Press).

Chammah J. Kaunda is Africa Research Fellow, Senior Research Specialist in Human Development Science of the Human Sciences Research Council (HDS-HSRC), and honorary lecturer in the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1506491316
• ISBN 13: 9781506491318
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: Ferree Womack Deanna, Barreto Raimundo C.