{"product_id":"christian-encounters-with-the-other-john-c-hawley-9780814735695","title":"Christian Encounters with the Other","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy does Christianity feel the need to impose its customs and beliefs on the rest of the world? And why has an impulse driven at least partially by sincere concern for the \"salvation\" of others so often played into the hands of ruthless colonizers with more cynical aims?\u003cbr\u003e Bringing together scholars in literature, history, and religion, \u003cb\u003eChristian Encounters with the Other Approaches \u003c\/b\u003ethese questions by analyzing literary accounts of historically famous sites of conversion. Covering the Renaissance through to the present and spanning much of the globe, the volume discusses a range of authors and their works--from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Stephen Riggs's ethnographic representations of the Sioux, to Salvation Army pamphleteers and Victorian missionaries, to China, to the works of Cameroonian novelist Mongo Beti, Guatemalan Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú, and Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo.\u003cbr\u003e Using a cultural studies approach, each account discusses the missionaries' intentions, how these were perceived, and what social forces helped to shape the messages that were preached, as well as fascinating accounts of counter-conversions, in which \"the other\" is not only exoticized but valorized and empowered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John C. Hawley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081473569X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814735695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.46w x 0.71d","brand":"John C. Hawley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47425078657279,"sku":"9780814735695","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cdf72c8f-fd0c-401c-a1b3-3660ffb594c3.jpg?v=1761536860","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/christian-encounters-with-the-other-john-c-hawley-9780814735695","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}