...Eliza F. Kent Possessed by the Virgin: Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, and Marian Possession in South India . By Kristin C. Bloomer . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . xv, 325 pp. The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India . By David Mosse...

...Susan S. Shin Korean Catholicism in the 70s . By William E. Biernatzki, S. J. , Luke Jin-Chang Im , and Anselm K. Min . Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books , 1975 . xv, 172, 67 pp. Tables. $12.95 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 700 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Oona Thommes Paredes Shamanism, Catholicism, and Gender Relations in Colonial Philippines, 1521–1985 . By Carolyn Brewer . Aldershot, Hants : Ashgate , 2004 . 272 pp. $89.99 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H E A S T A S...

...John A. Coleman, S. J. The Great Asiatic Religions and Their Social Functions . By François Houtart and Geneviève Lemercinier . Louvain-la-Neuve : Catholic University of Louvain , 1980 . 226 pp. N.p. Genesis and Institutionalization of the Indian Catholicism . By François Houtart...

...Suzanne Wilson Barnett China, American Catholicism, and the Missionary . By Thomas A. Breslin . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 1980 . 116 pp. Notes, Principal Sources Consulted, Index. $15.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK...

... around threats Catholicism posed to the centrality of neo-Confucian orthodoxy, but it encompassed wider concerns over heterodox books imported from Qing China (1644–1911). What Matsudaira desired, Chŏngjo took for granted as defining Chosŏn (1392–1910) Korea's historic claim to guard civilization...

... The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 This fascinating book opens up new terrain not only in the study of Christianity in late imperial China but also in the study of religion in China more broadly. Through a detailed examination of Chinese Catholicism in the Fuan region of northeastern Fujian...

... and often flexible in their enforcement of the papal ban on ancestral rites (pp. 86–90). The six chapters of this book are arranged thematically for the most part. After a brief overview of Chinese Catholicism, Mungello devotes the first half of the book (chapters 2 and 3) to the extraordinary, if also...

... . Anti-Catholicism in Victorian England . New York : Barnes & Noble . Notices of Madras and Cuddalore in the Last Century . 1858 . London : Longman . Numark Mitch . Forthcoming. “ Hebrew School in Nineteenth-Century Bombay: Protestant Missionaries, Cochin Jews, and the Hebraization...

... in Western science without embracing Catholicism. Ch'oe selects 440 scholars who were either for or against Western learning to determine the social and intellectual makeup of the group. To probe their motives she provides brief biographical sketches of about two dozen prominent individuals. Those who...

... to Nation examines the history of Catholicism in Vietnam under French colonialism. Keith argues that colonialism sharpened racial differences in Vietnamese Catholic life by enabling French missionaries to dominate the religious leadership. Whereas Vietnamese priests enjoyed relative parity with European...

... countrymen. The bicentennial of Korean Catholicism was celebrated with great solemnity in May 1984 with a visit to Seoul by Pope John Paul II who canonized 103 Korean martyrs. The author presents his book in Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 56 (1987: 215 217) as the result of his investigation of primary...

... on the intricacies of Catholicism's historical role in the islands. Of the two, Schumacher's compilation is by far the more important. A diligent and able professional who has devoted most of his energies to the nineteenth century emergence of Philippine nationalism, he extends his scope with this collection...

... HERTZOG The University of Michigan Korean Catholicism in the 70s. BY WILLIAM E. BIERNATZKI, S.J., LUKE JIN-CHANG IM, AND ANSELM K. M I N . Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1975. xv, 172, 67 pp. Tables. $12.95 The history of the Catholic Church in Korea has been anomalous in several respects. The Korean...

...-language studies of rural Catholicism in China are still quite rare. Henrietta Harrison's remarkable history of the Catholic village of Cave Gully (Dongergou) and its vicinity in central Shanxi is, therefore, an important contribution that offers new insights into how Christianity was lived and practiced...

.... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 atheism Baha'i Buddhism Catholicism communism personalism religion Vietnam In June 1963, Buddhist monk Thích Quang Đức sat down at a crossroads in Saigon and lit himself on fire in protest. A few days before, the Buddhist...

... is that this study has proceeded as if compadrinazgo were constant in its cultural form and significantly variable in its social practices. The imposed uniformity of Roman Catholicism seems to have obscured the import of seemingly small differences in beliefs and practices, yet surely these variations within a broad...

... formation? The problem is that this study has proceeded as if compadrinazgo were constant in its cultural form and significantly variable in its social practices. The imposed uniformity of Roman Catholicism seems to have obscured the import of seemingly small differences in beliefs and practices, yet surely...

... power, Setton suggests, may have stimulated Tasan's questioning of the hegemonic version of Confucianism. After a brief biographical chapter, which includes an abbreviated account of how Tasan's youthful flirtation with Catholicism adversely affected his hopes for a long and successful career...

... intersperses insightful if sometimes speculative chapters on her general theme with a separate chapter devoted to each of four specific "conversion" narratives of noteworthy individuals: John Henry Newman (to Catholicism), Pandita Ramabai (to Christianity), Annie Besant (to Theosophy), and Bimrao Ambedkar...