RT Article
T1 The Karen and the Politics of Conversion
JF Church history and religious culture
VO 96
IS 3
SP 325
OP 345
A1 Mang, Pum Za
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1550776061
AB The history this essay explores confirms the claim that a combination of political backdrop, social change, tribal religion, and cross-cultural appropriation of the gospel has positively contributed to religious conversion among the ethnic Karen in Burma from their primal religion to Christianity. This essay further contends that Christianity has protected the Karen from Burman coercion and assimilation, continued to differentiate them from the Burman, and will likely protect them from Burman aggression and absorption in the future, proving the historical truth that the fate and future of the Karen are tightly bound up with Christianity. It is also observed that the Karen would have been assimilated into the religion, culture, language, and ethnicity of the Burman had they refused to convert from their ancestral religion to Christianity.
K1 Burma : Karen : Burman : ethnicity : nationalism : Christianity and Buddhism
DO 10.1163/18712428-09603001