...Taku Suzuki Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migration and Global Pentecostalism in a Brazilian Diaspora . By Suma Ikeuchi . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2019 . xvii, 235 pp. ISBN: 9781503607965 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020...

...Kerry P. C. San Chirico The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Twentieth Century . Studies in the History of Christian Missions. By Michael Bergunder . Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans , 2008 . xii , 1 pp. $40.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... of consumption and worship, the persistence of popular Hinduism and caste conflict among Christians, and the reasons for the worldwide resurgence of Christian fundamentalism and Pentecostalism. Of the three Protestant congregations he studied in fieldwork in 1974-75 and 1981-82, two belong to what he calls...

... is devoted solely to evangelicals and Pentecostals, and several others also take them into account. In addition to its preface and introduction, the book contains country-specific chapters on India (two chapters), Indonesia, Japan, China, and Korea, while six thematic chapters address such topics...

... conversion, and the cultivation of family piety. They take a harsh and uncompromising approach to Hinduism and are suspicious of the liberal theology and institutionoriented Christianity of their middle-class coreligionists. During the last few years many of them have been attracted to popular Pentecostal...

... proliferation of new religions, as well as the no less dramatic refiguration of those old. In the once securely Catholic Philippines, the past generation has seen dramatic conversion to evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity (Howell 2008 ). In response to the Protestant boom, Filipino Catholicism has...

...Richard Madsen China is part of a wave of popular, mainly Pentecostal-style Christianity that is sweeping the whole world, especially the global South. An adequate explanation of these movements would require a more robust sociological framework than the author is able to provide in his short...

..., assertions of an “Asian” Christianity are most forcefully articulated by Pentecostal-charismatic theologians, with their claim to be more sensitive to “third world” spirituality; in 2005, the Pew Forum estimated that about a third of Asia's Christians could be considered Pentecostal-charismatic...

... socioeconomic deprivation as the primary causal explanation for Pentecostalism's spread. Inouye, on the other hand, focuses on how the “charismatic orientation” of the church shaped its organizational structure, allowing it to adopt a more flexible approach to church organization. Rather than telling...

... devoted considerable space to Chinese indigenous churches, especially those with Pentecostal characteristics, notably the True Jesus Church and the Jesus Family. He concludes that at this level, in rural China, village Christianity has much in common with Chinese folk religions. It is, however...

... THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The heart of the study is chapter 4, portraying various aspects of the Korean church today. Contrasting portraits are given of two large Seoul Protestant churches, each a community unto itself one Presbyterian and one Pentecostal. Clark also considers church institutions (schools...

... Pentecostal. Clark also considers church institutions (schools, hospitals) and the broader community involvement of churches (welfare, radio). Some key features include the diversity of Protestant Christianity today within a general conservative pietistic or even fundamentalist pattern, the legacy...

... and starving death of her parents, brought a never-ending sequence of continuous, ever-deepening spiritual experiences. No mention is made of her second or evangelical conversion to Christ as her personal Lord, nor of her third or Pentecostal conversion to the Holy Spirit as her charismatic "Blessing...

... Nathaniel Roberts's To Be Cared For makes an excellent contribution to the long history of the anthropology of Indian Christianity. In this engaged ethnography and elegantly argued book about the lives of Dalit Pentecostal Christians in a slum (“Anbu Nagar”) in Chennai, he focuses on how a small community...

... always had to deal with reformist populist forces associated with syncretistic Chinese forms of revivalist-Pentecostal Christianity running from the Taiping rebellion to the Tiananmen protests. And we may extend this now to the student protest movements in Hong Kong in the fall of 2014. Let it only...

..., Culp might have demonstrated that Evangelical and Pentecostal groups remained determined to spread the Gospel and to win souls, rejecting the strategies of the Social Gospel. Questions of missionary impact and Chinese response are dealt with in the segment that covers the Revolution of the 1920s...

...") Christians, a Pentecostal offshoot of Mukyokai founded after the war by Teshima Ikuro (1910-1973). While Mukyokai appeals largely to the well-educated upper-middle class, Makuya is essentially a folk or popular religious movement, not unlike Japan's new religions, which features healing miracles, religious...

... is objective yet empathetic; he is concerned for the cultural and religious context and also for the beliefs and intentions of the Christians themselves. The value of this approach is demonstrated in his discussion of "congruence" between teachings and practices of the pentecostal True Jesus Church and those...

... or Pentecostal conversion to the Holy Spirit as her charismatic "Blessing" encounters which led Ramabai progressively further along a path from unitarian inclination to trinitarian monotheism. Throughout her life, Ramabai also remained a Hindu and a Brahman, in her culture, her language, and her outlook...

... for the worldwide resurgence of Christian fundamentalism and Pentecostalism. Of the three Protestant congregations he studied in fieldwork in 1974-75 and 1981-82, two belong to what he calls the middle-class Christian community, a category that emerged from the class and status evaluations of Indian Christians...