Christianity and the State in Asia

Francis Khek Gee Lim is Assistant Professor in the Division of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University. He is the author of Imagining the Good Life: Negotiating Culture and Development in Nepal Himalaya, and has published in a number of international refereed journals. His research interests include religion, tourism, and globalization. Julius Bautista is an anthropologist and is Lecturer at the Southeast Asian Studies Programme, the National University of Singapore (NUS). He concurrently holds a Visiting Fellowship at the Asia Research Institute, NUS, and has published on topics on Philippine religion and culture in various scholarly forums. His broader interests include material religion and diasporic identity in Southeast Asia.

• 1. Introduction: Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict 2. Evangelism, the State, and Subjectivity 3. Is Protestant Conversion a Form of Protest? Urban and Upland Protestants in Southeast Asia 4. Postwar Japanese Christian Historians, Democracy, and the Problem of Wartime "Christianity on Japanese Terms" 5. Negotiating ‘Foreignness’, Localizing Faith: Tibetan Catholicism in the Yunnan-Tibet Borderlands 6. Conversions, Complicity and the State in Post-Independence India 7. Transcending the Local: Chinese Indonesians, the State, and Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity 8. The Issue of HIV/AIDS in the Philippines: The Roman Catholic Church and the Philippine Government 9. Christian Reactions to Government-led Cremation in South Korea 10. Subject to Kings, Presidents, Rulers and Magistrates 11. Christianity in Singapore: The Voice of Conscience? 12. About Face: Asian Christianity in the Context of Southern Expansion