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
