Recognizing that one-third of the world's Christians practice their faith outside Europe and North America, the fourteen essays in Mother Tongue Theologies explore how international fiction depicts Christianity's dramatic movement South and East of Jerusalem as well as North and West. Structured by geographical region, this collection captures the many ways in which people around the globe receive Christianity. It also celebrates postcolonial literature's diversity. And it highlights non-Western authors' biblical literacy, ...
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Recognizing that one-third of the world's Christians practice their faith outside Europe and North America, the fourteen essays in Mother Tongue Theologies explore how international fiction depicts Christianity's dramatic movement South and East of Jerusalem as well as North and West. Structured by geographical region, this collection captures the many ways in which people around the globe receive Christianity. It also celebrates postcolonial literature's diversity. And it highlights non-Western authors' biblical literacy, addressing how and why locally rooted Christians invoke Scripture in their pursuit of personal as well as social transformation. Featured authors include Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constantine Cavafy, Scott Cairns, Chinua Achebe, Madam Afua Kuma, Earl Lovelace, V. S. Reid, Ernesto Cardenal, Helena Parente Cunha, Arundhati Roy, Mary Martha Sherwood, Marguerite Butler, R. M. Ballantyne, Rudyard Kipling, Nora Okja Keller, Amy Tan, Albert Wendt, and Louise Erdrich.Individual essayists rightly come to different conclusions about Christianity's global character. Some connect missionary work with colonialism as well as cultural imperialism, for example, and yet others accentuate how indigenous cultures amalgamate with Christianity's foreignness to produce mesmerizing, multiple identities. Differences notwithstanding, Mother Tongue Theologies delves into the moral and spiritual issues that arise out of the cut and thrust of native responses to Western Christian presence and pressure. Ultimately, this anthology suggests the reward of listening for and to such responses, particularly in literary art, will be a wider and deeper discernment of the merits and demerits of post-Western Christianity, especially for Christians living in the so-called post-Christian West.
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New. Mother Tongue Theologies is a very loosely gathered collection of essays that explore the intersections, syncretisms, and cultural translations (or mistranslations) of Christianity with the non-Western world. The power of literature--in particular, poetry and the novel--acts as both catalyst and vehicle for these explorations of Christianity as inhabited by Native Americans, Koreans, Africans, Russians, Greeks, Indians, South Americans, South Pacific post-colonials, and the Chinese. This is an eccentric and far-reaching work. Part One focuses on Eastern Orthodoxy, from the perspectives of Dostoevsky's fiction and the poetry of Constantine Cavafy and Scott Cairns. Evgenia Cherkasova considers the tradition of suffering, and also its ambiguity, in the work of the famous Russian. J.A. Jackson fleshes out the typologies of American poet Scott Cairns, while John Estes makes a suggestive case for a hesychastic understanding of Cavafy. Part Two shifts to Africa and the Carribean with a discussion of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and the arrival of Christianity in Nigeria. Darren Middleton examines the Africanization of Christianity as it relates to the topography of the continent and the poetry of Madam Afua Kuma, and Mozella Mitchell reflects on the concept of essential being in Caribbean works that explore the dimensions of human survival. In Part Three, the editors take us to Roman Catholic Nicaragua via poet Ernesto Cardenal and examine the syncretism of Afro-Brazilian religions through the lens of slavery and Helena Parente Cunha's Woman between Mirrors. Skipping ahead to Part Five, we find another investigation of syncretism as seen in Native American Christianity and the novels of Louise Erdrich. Part Four takes a substantial look at the Christianity of Asia and the Pacific Islands. Two essays travel through India, contemplating the Syrian Christianity revealed in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and the use of children's fiction by British missionaries to convert the 'idolatrous heathens. ' Stephen Pearson writes an absorbing essay on the conflicts between Christianity and Korean shamanism in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman while Di Gan Blackburn delves into the rich world of Chinese American Amy Tan and Jack interprets Albert Wendt's depiction of South Pacific islanders in Pouliuli. While not every essay may appeal, the eclectic nature of this collection engagingly considers the reality of globalization and is certain to lengthen many a curious reader's list of newly discovered work.
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