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    Global Visions of Violence
    Agency and Persecution in World Christianity

    Jason Bruner (Edited by), David C. Kirkpatrick (Edited by), John Corrigan (Contributions by), Omri Elisha (Contributions by), Hillary Kaell (Contributions by), Joel Cabrita (Contributions by), Kate Kingsbury (Contributions by), Candace Lukasik (Contributions by), Harvey Kwiyani (Contributions by), John Boopalan (Contributions by), Christie Chui-Shan Chow (Contributions by), Melani McAlister (Afterword by)

    9781978830837

    Paperback / softback, published 9 December 2022

    222 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.05 kg

    "This timely volume puts faces to the agents behind violence today. By interrogating Christian imaginaries of persecution, suffering, and martyrdom within increasingly polarizing, globalizing spaces—real or imagined—Global Visions of Violence expertly complexifies the gendered tropes of religious identities and social vulnerabilities within world Christianity."
    — Afe Adogame, co-editor of Fighting in God's Name: Religion and Conflict in Local-Global Perspectives

    "This seminal collection by Jason Bruner and David Kirkpatrick features essential insights and diverse interdisciplinary approaches from leading international scholarly voices. Taken together, they show us how the distinct paths that American Religious History and World Christianity each have charted share common trailheads distinctively marked by 'global visions of violence.' Neither field can be understood without the 'global' aspirations that motivate Christianity or the 'violence' that plagues its history and our present."
    — John D. Carlson, co-editor of From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America

    In Global Visions of Violence, the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaboration that examines Christianity worldwide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By analyzing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the imagination of Christian identity globally, this interdisciplinary volume integrates the perspectives of ethicists, historians, anthropologists, and ethnographers to generate new conversations. Taken together, the chapters in this book challenge scholarship on Christian growth that has not accounted for violence while analyzing persecution narratives that can wield data toward partisan ends.  This allows Global Visions of Violence to push urgent conversations forward, giving voice to projects that illuminate wide and often hidden landscapes that have been shaped by global visions of violence, and seeking solutions that end violence and turn toward the pursuit of justice, peace, and human rights among suffering Christians. 

    Introduction: Locating Christian Agency in a World of Suffering 
    JASON BRUNER AND DAVID C. KIRKPATRICK
    PART ONE
    Geographies 
    1 Of Numbers and Subjects: Empathic Distance in the American Protestant Missionary Agenda 
    JOHN CORRIGAN
    2 Saved by a Martyr: Media, Suffering, and Power in Evangelical Internationalism 
    OMRI ELISHA
    3 American Theodicy: Human Nature and Natural Disaster 
    HILLARY KAELL
    PART TWO
    Bodies
    4 Apartheid and World Christianity: How Violence Shapes Theories of "Indigenous" Religion in Twentieth-Century Africa 
    JOEL CABRITA
    5 Danger, Distress, Disease, and Death: Santa Muerte and Her Female Followers 
    KATE KINGSBURY
    6 Modern-Day Martyrs: Coptic Blood and American Christian Kinship 
    CANDACE LUKASIK
    PART THREE
    Communities 
    7 Bishop Colenso Is Dead: White Missionaries and Black Suspicion in Colonial Africa 
    HARVEY KWIYANI
    8 Religion and the Production of Affect in Caste-Based Societies
    SUNDER JOHN BOOPALAN
    9 From Persecution to Exile: The Church of Almighty God from China 
    CHRISTIE CHUI-SHAN CHOW
    Afterword: Global Visions of Violence—A Response 
    MELANI McALISTER
    Acknowledgments
    Bibliography 
    Notes on Contributors 
    Index
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