4. Accidental Pilgrims Modernity, Migration, and Christian Conversion among Contemporary Taiwanese Americans

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Modernity and the Materiality of Religion 1
5. Part I. Economy and Religion
6. 1. A Sacred Economy of Value and Production Capitalism and Protestantism in Early Modern Korea (1885–1919) 19
7. 2. Taking Jesus Public The Neoliberal Transformation of Korean Megachurches 47
8. Part II. Religion and Social Relations
9. 3. Guanxi and Gospel Mapping Christian Networks in South China 71
10. 4. Accidental Pilgrims Modernity, Migration, and Christian Conversion among Contemporary Taiwanese Americans 95
11. Part III. The Sacred and Social Activism
12. 5. Christianity and Civil Society in Colonial Korea The Civil Society Movement of Cho Man-sik and the P’yŏngyang YMCA against Japanese Colonialism 119
13. 6. Between Mission and Medicine The Early History of Severance Hospital 140
14. 7. Kagawa Toyohiko (1888–1960) and the Japanese Christian Impact on American Society 162
15. Part IV. Religion and National Identity
16. 8. Preaching Modern Japan National Imaginaries and Protestant Sermons in Meiji and Taishō Tokyo 197
17. 9. “Smelling of Pickled Radish, Not Butter” The Wartime Search for a Christianity Viable in Japan 224
18. 10. Diasporic Korean Christianity in the United States, 1922–1941 254
19. 11. Protestant Christianity in Reform-Era China Realities and Representations 278
20. Selected Bibliography 309
21. Contributors 329
22. Index 331