Readings (STM course 2006)
Module One
: Introduction, historiography and methodology
Benda, H J. "The
Structure of Southeast Asian History: Some Preliminary Observations."
Journal of Southeast Asian History
3, no. 1 (1962): 106-38.
Keyes, Charles F. "Being Protestant
Christians in Southeast Asian Worlds."
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
27, no. 2 (1996): 280-92.
Smail, J R W.
"On the Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast
Asia." Journal
of Southeast Asian History 2, no. 2 (1961): 72-102.
Gillman, Ian, and Hans-Joachim Klimkeit.
Christians in Asia before 1500. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 1999, 307-313.
Roxborogh, John.
"Contextualisation and Re-Contextualisation: Regional Patterns
in the History of Southeast Asian Christianity."
Asia Journal of Theology
9(1) (1995): 30-46.
Steenbrink, Karel A. "The Rehabilitation
of the Indigenous. A Survey of Recent Research on the History
of Christianity in Indonesia."
Exchange. Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical
Research 22,
no. 3 (1993): 250-63. Module Two
: Telling the story : a tale of two centuries
Roxborogh, John. Early nineteenth-century
foundations of Christianity in Malaya : churches and missions
in Penang, Melaka and Singapore from 1786-1842.
Asia Journal of Theology
6 Ap 1992, p 54-72.
Roxborogh, John. "Christianity in
South-East Asia, 1914-2000." In
The Cambridge History of Christianity World Christianities
C.1914-C.2000, edited by Hugh McLeod, 436-49. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2006. Module Three
: Common Experiences and Recurring Issues
Amster, Matthew. "New Sacred Lands.
The Making of a Christian Prayer Mountain in Highland Borneo."
In Sacred Places
and Modern Landscapes : Sacred Geography and Social-Religious
Transformations in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Ronald
A Luckens-bull, 131-60. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University,
2003.
Aragon, Lorraine V.
Fields of the Lord : Animism, Christian Minorities,
and State Development in Indonesia. Honolulu: University
of Hawai'i Press, 2000, chapter 6 "Sacrificial dialogues and
Christian ritual qualifications" pp.202-239.
Cohen, Erik. "Christianization and
Indigenization: Contrasting Processes of Religious Adaptation
in Thailand." In
Indigenous Responses to Western Christianity, edited
by Steven Kaplan, 29-55. New York: New York University Press,
1995.
Russell, A. Sue.
Conversion, Identity, and Power : The Impact of Christianity
on Power Relationships and Social Exchanges. Lanham, MD:
University Press of America, 1999, pp1-14.
DeBernardi, Jean. "The Localization
of Christianity among Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia." In
Chinese Populations in Contemporary Southeast Asian Societies
: Identities, Interdependence and International Influence,
edited by M. Jocelyn Armstrong, R. Warwick Armstrong and K.
Mulliner, 123-50. Richmond: Curzon, 2001.
Keyes, Charles F. "Why the Thai
Are Not Christians: Buddhist and Christian Conversion in Thailand."
In Conversion
to Christianity : Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
on a Great Transformation, edited by Robert W Hefner, 259-83.
Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1993.
Ngata, Judith. "World Religions
as a Source of Power among Chinese Women in Malaysia." In
Chinese Populations in Contemporary Southeast Asian Societies
: Identities, Interdependence and International Influence,
edited by M. Jocelyn Armstrong, R. Warwick Armstrong and K.
Mulliner, 151-87. Richmond: Curzon, 2001.
Phan, Peter C. "The missionary strategies
of Alexandre de Rhodes." In
Mission and Catechesis : Alexandre De Rhodes and Inculturation
in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam,
Faith and Cultures Series. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis
Books, 1998, chapter 3, pp.69-106.
Tamney, Joseph B., and Linda Hsueh-Ling
Chiang. (2002).
"The religious market in
Sinitic societies"
in Modernization,
globalization, and Confucianism in Chinese societies, Religion
in the age of transformation,. Westport, Conn.: Praeger,
chapter 6, pp155-185, 221-224.
Hefner, Robert W. (1993). "Of faith
and commitment: Christian Conversion in Java." In
Conversion to Christianity : historical and anthropological
perspectives on a great transformation. Berkeley, Calif.:
University of California Press, chapter 4, 99-125. Module Four
: Institutions and Identity
Fox, Thomas C. (2002).
Pentecost in Asia : a new way of being church.
Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 7-21.
Philip, T V. "Christian Conference
of Asia: A Historical Overview."
Asia Journal of Theology
9, no. 1 (1995): 2-29.
Yeow Choo, Lak.
"Theological Education in South East Asia, 1957-2002."
International Bulletin of Missionary Research
28, no. 1 (2004): 26-29.
Session
1
Introductions and expectations.
Making sense of the assignments.
Identity and Geography: "Whose idea is Southeast Asia?"
2
"What has mattered and how do
we decide?" Timelines and Themes
3
How has the story been told;
how does it need to be told?
Reviewing the literature and other resources and identifying
what is needed
4
SEA Christianity in the 19th
century
5
SEA Christianity in the 20th
century
6
Continuity, Syncretism and Power
in Primal Societies
7
Christian faith in the context
of Buddhism and Chinese folk religion
8
Christianity in the environments
of Island SEA
9
The CCA and FABC
10
Theological Education and the
Future of the Church
Other articles included in the Reader for the STM 2006 course
Chareonwongsak, Kriengsak. "Megachurches for Christian Minorities: Hope of Bangkok." In Planting and Growing Urban Churches. From Dream to Reality, edited by Harvie M Conn, 211-21. Grand Rapids MI: Baker, 1997.
Francisco, José Mario C. "Christianity as Church and Story and the Birth of the Filipino Nation in the Nineteenth Century." In World Christianities, c. 1815-1914, edited by Sheridan Gilley and Brian Stanley, 528-41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Holtrop, Pieter. "The Governor a Missionary? Dutch Colonial Rule and Christianization During Idenburg's Term of Office as Governor of Indonesia (1909-16)." In Missions and Missionaries, Studies in Church History. Subsidia 13, edited by Pieter Holtrop and Hugh McLeod, 142-56. Woodbridge: Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by the Boydell Press, 2000.
Keyes, Charles F. "Why the Thai Are Not Christians: Buddhist and Christian Conversion in Thailand." In Conversion to Christianity : Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on a Great Transformation, edited by Robert W Hefner, 259-83. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1993.
Koschorke, Klaus. "The World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh 1910 and the Rise of National Church Movements in Asia and Africa." In Transkontinentale Beziehungen in Der Geschichte Des Aussereuropèaischen Christentums. Transcontinental Links in the History of Non-Western Christianity, edited by Klaus Koschorke, 203-17. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2002.
Phan, Peter C. "Christianity in Indochina." In World Christianities, C.1815 - C.1914, edited by Sheridan Gilley and Brian Stanley, 513-27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Roxborogh, John. "Ministry to All the People? The Anglican Church in Malaysia." In The Ministry: Clerical and Lay, edited by W. J. Shiels and Diana Wood, 423-31. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989.
Sakhong Lian, H. Religion and Politics among the Chin People in Burma (1896-1949), Studia Missionalia Upsaliensia ; 80. Uppsala: Uppsala University, 2000, chapter 5, "The coming of Christianity to East Chinram" pp.191-229.
Steenbrink, Karel. "Five Catholic Theologians of Indonesia in Search of an International or Local Identity." Exchange. Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research 29, no. 1 (2000): 2-22.
Widiasih, Ester Pudjo. "A Survey of Reformed Worship in Indonesia." In Christian Worship in Reformed Churches Past and Present, edited by Lukas Vischer, 175-93. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003.