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Asia, Africa, and Latin America 1450-2000
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Today, the majority of the world's Christian population lives in the Global South. Knowledge of their history is therefore indispensable. This textbook offers a compact and vivid overview of the history of Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America since 1450, focussing on diversity and interdependence, local actors and global effects. Maps, illustrations and numerous photos as well as continuous references to easily accessible source texts support the reader's own reading and its use in various forms of academic teaching.
Asia, Africa, and Latin America 1450-2000
Author:
Today, the majority of the world's Christian population lives in the Global South. Knowledge of their history is therefore indispensable. This textbook offers a compact and vivid overview of the history of Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America since 1450, focussing on diversity and interdependence, local actors and global effects. Maps, illustrations and numerous photos as well as continuous references to easily accessible source texts support the reader's own reading and its use in various forms of academic teaching.
Asian Studies is published as a subseries of Brill’s Paperback Collection.
This product consists of the following titles:
• A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan. Placing the People, Kevin M. Doak
• Ajanta: History and Development. The End of the Golden Age, Walter M. Spink
• Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money, Maghiel van Crevel
• Death in Ancient China. The Tale of One Man's Journey, Constance A. Cook
• Early Chinese Religion, Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD) (2 vols.), Edited by John Lagerwey and Marc Kalinowski
• Questions of Style. Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China, 1911-1937, Michel Hockx
• The Politics of Historical Production in Late Qing and Republican China, Edited by Tze-ki Hon and Robert J.Culp
• The Spread of Buddhism, Edited by Ann Heirman and Stephan Peter Bumbacher
This product consists of the following titles:
• A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan. Placing the People, Kevin M. Doak
• Ajanta: History and Development. The End of the Golden Age, Walter M. Spink
• Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money, Maghiel van Crevel
• Death in Ancient China. The Tale of One Man's Journey, Constance A. Cook
• Early Chinese Religion, Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD) (2 vols.), Edited by John Lagerwey and Marc Kalinowski
• Questions of Style. Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China, 1911-1937, Michel Hockx
• The Politics of Historical Production in Late Qing and Republican China, Edited by Tze-ki Hon and Robert J.Culp
• The Spread of Buddhism, Edited by Ann Heirman and Stephan Peter Bumbacher
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Brill Companions Online can be purchased as a whole, but is also available in six different subject categories.
Features & Benefits
• Over 20 years of content.
• Online access to 345 reference works.
• Over 6,000 essays purpose-written by leading experts.
• Sophisticated tools allow for exporting citations, save searches and sharing content.
• Easy navigation through full-text search and metadata search.
• Students and faculty will have the option to order their own $25 paperback copy of each title in the collection through Brill’s MyBook program.
Please note that titles published since 2007, with the exception of those included in Brill’s Companions to Classical Studies Online, are also available in other E-Book collections.
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