Talk:Arun W. Jones

Arun W. Jones is the Dan and Lillian Hankey Associate Professor of World Evangelism and Director of the Master of Theology Program at Emory University. His research investigates how Christians have appropriated and spread their faith in Asian contexts, especially in the era of European and American imperialism. His research interests also include Caste Systems, Caste and Untouchability, Critical Race Studies and Eugenics.

In 2021, he endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications

Books

• Editor,Christian Interculture: Texts and Voices from Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, Penn State University Press, 2021
• Missionary Christianity and Local Religion: American Evangelicalism in North India, 1836-1870, Baylor University Press, 2017
• Christian Missions in the American Empire: Episcopalians in Northern Luzon, the Philippines, 1902-1946, Peter Lang Publishing, 2003

Chapters and articles

• "Mission in the World of Religions,” in Together in the Mission of God: Jubilee Reflections on the International Missionary Council, ed. Risto Jukko (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 2022), 199-216
• "Bhakti and Christian Missions," in Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism, Oxford University Press, 2020
• "The Virtues of Mission," Methodist History, vol. 58, no. 1 and 2 (October 2019 and January 2020)
• "Protestants and Anglicans in South-Central Asia," in Edinburgh Companions in Global Christianity, Vol 3: South and Central Asia, edited by Kenneth Ross. Edinburgh University Press, 2019
• "Expressions and Encounters: Experiencing the Histories and Theologies of African Christianity in the Collection of Pitts Theology Library," in Theological Librarianship, vol. 12, no.1, April 2019
• "Not Such Distant Cousins," in Insights, vol. 134, no. 2,
• "Healing and Evangelism in American Methodism: A Proposal,"in, Missio Dei and the United States: Toward a Faithful United Methodist Witness, edited by Kathryn Armistead. General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 2018
• "History of the South Asian Experience of Christianity," in Encyclopedia in Christianity in the Global South, Rowman and Littlefield, 2018
• "Discerning the Missio Dei in a Time of Crisis," Missional Preacher. American Society of Missiology, January 14, 2018
• "Mission and Power: A View from the Underside of Society," in Mission and Power: History, Relevance and Perils, edited by Atola Longkumer, Jorgen Skov Sorensen, and Michael Biehl. Regnum Books International, 2017.
• "Indian Christians and the Appropriation of Western Civilization in the Nineteenth Century," in Studies in World Christianity, vol. 23, no. 1 April 01, 2017
• "Local Agency and the Reception of Protestantism in the Philippines." Journal of Asian/North American Theological Educators, vol. 2, no. 1 November 12, 2016

References

• Arun W. Jones page on Academia accessed October 11, 2022
• Arun W. Jones page on Emory University accessed October 11, 2022