2 Saved by a Martyr: Media, Suffering, and Power in Evangelical Internationalism

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: Locating Christian Agency in a World of Suffering 1
4. PART ONE Geographies
5. Introduction 17
6. 1 Of Numbers and Subjects: Empathic Distance in the American Protestant Missionary Agenda 21
7. 2 Saved by a Martyr: Media, Suffering, and Power in Evangelical Internationalism 40
8. 3 American Theodicy: Human Nature and Natural Disaster 53
9. PART TWO Bodies
10. Introduction 73
11. 4 Apartheid and World Christianity: How Violence Shaped Theories of “Indigenous” Religion in Twentieth-Century Africa 75
12. 5 Danger, Distress, Disease, and Death: Santa Muerte and Her Female Followers 92
13. 6 Modern-Day Martyrs: Coptic Blood and American Christian Kinship 107
14. PART THREE Communities
15. Introduction 125
16. 7 Bishop Colenso Is Dead: White Missionaries and Black Suspicion in Colonial Africa 127
17. 8 Religions and the Production of Affect in Caste-Based Societies 142
18. 9 From Persecution to Exile: The Church of Almighty God from China 159
19. Afterword: Global Visions of Violence— A Response 177
20. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 187
21. BIBLIOGRAPHY 189
22. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 209
23. INDEX 211