The Karen and the Politics of Conversion
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. T...
| Publicado en: | Church history and religious culture |
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Brill
2016
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| En: |
Church history and religious culture
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| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Burma
/ Karen
/ Christianity
/ Conversion (Religion)
/ Ethnic identity
/ History 1824-1948
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | CD Cristianismo ; Cultura KAH Edad Moderna KAJ Época contemporánea KBM Asia |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Burma
Karen
Burman
ethnicity
nationalism
Christianity and Buddhism
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| Acceso en línea: |
Volltext (Verlag) |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-2428 |
| Obras secundarias: | In: Church history and religious culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18712428-09603001 |