Asian Catholicism and the Remaking of Contemporary Families

Michel Chambon (Editor) Michel Chambon is a research fellow in the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore and a coordinator of the Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics. He is author of Making Christ Present in China: Actor-Network Theory and the Anthropology of Christianity.James Ponniah (Editor) James Ponniah is assistant professor and head of the Department of Christian Studies at the University of Madras. He is author of Culture, Religion, and Home-Making in and Beyond South Asia and coeditor of Democratization of Indian Christianity: Hegemony, Accessibility, and Resistance. He also serves aseditor in chief of the International Journal of Asian Christianity.

Although Catholics comprise one of the largest faith communities in Asia, for many years they have been the subject of considerably less comparative research than other faith communities. In this wide-ranging and well-written book, leading experts on Catholicism in different Asian nations shed a fascinating and comparative light on the dynamics of religion, family, and nation across Asia. The result is one of the most insightful and important books on Asian Catholicism in years.