Japanese Catholic novelist Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence (Chinmoku) is a profound yet controversial work published in1966. Japanese film director Masahiro Shinoda made it into a film in 1971 under the title 沈黙 (Chinmoku)–SILENCE in Japan. Endo collaborated with Shinoda for… Read More ›
Editors: Justine K.H. Tse and Jonathan Y. Tan Series: Asian Christianity in the Diaspora Hardcover: 184 pages Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2016 edition (July 15, 2016) From Book Cover This book gathers the voices of four local Hong Kong… Read More ›
Exhibition: “Christianity in Asia: Sacred Art and Visual Splendour” Place and date: Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, May 27-Sep 11, 2016 The exhibition “Christianity in Asia: Sacred Art and Visual Splendour,” which opened at Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) in Singapore in… Read More ›
Shivraj Mahendra, Editor in History at AATF, is serving as Graduate Student Representative at the Conference on Faith and History (http://www.faithandhistory.org/about-cfh/history/ see also, https://www.facebook.com/groups/faith.history/ ). Please contact him at shivrajkm@gmail.com for more information on membership and benefits.
I didn’t want you to enjoy the film. I wanted you to look very closely at your own soul[1] Sam Peckinpah (Director) I. Hook The cinema or pop film[2] has now become “the cathedral of the [twenty-first] century.”[3] Among its… Read More ›
Simon Chan, professor of systematic theology at Trinity College in Singapore, challenges the way in which Asian theology has been understood and reified by Western theologians. Chan poses the question of why Asian theology largely consists of elitist theological accounts… Read More ›
In response to the contemporary challenge of multiculturality and the problem of what Martin Luther King Jr. once called “Sunday 11:00 am the most segregated hour in the US,” Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Jann Aldedge-Clanton wrote a timely needed book,… Read More ›
Introduction The question was asked of a Brahman who believes in God as the Creator by Buddha: “if God is good and omnipotent, why do humans become murderers, thieves, and liars?”[1]This question is more understandable when a noted Japanese Buddhist… Read More ›
Vol. 4 No. 1 Articles & Book Reviews Bible Article: “Everything They Owned Was Held in Common” Peter D. Skewes-Cox, PDF Book Review on Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations, Naeyoun… Read More ›
This latest introduction to World Christianity comes with some bold new claims and unique perspectives. It carefully builds on the existing resources and secures a place for itself with a fresh emphasis. However, to those who have journeyed with Earl… Read More ›
The colonial period ended long ago, but the impact of colonialism and imperialism persists in a new guise. Ongoing effects of colonialism/imperialism continue to shape a post-colonial world order and the lives of those who live in this post-colonial reality…. Read More ›
Good morning family. What a privilege it is to stand before you and add harmony to God’s symphony of Amazing Grace. As people of God, as members of the body of Christ, we are part of this marvelous symphony we… Read More ›
Introduction I am an amputee. Upon my disability I immediately became a member of the one minority population to which anyone may belong at anytime any place under unanticipated circumstances. An infection in my leg resulted in gangrene. I was… Read More ›
