CFP: THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ASIA: CHINA, KOREA AND JAPAN

The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in Asia: 

China, Korea, and Japan

The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia: China, Korea, and Japan, Editors: Cindy Yik-yi Chu (Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University) and Beatrice Leung (Former Research Professor, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Kaohsiung).

This three-section Handbook provides information on the Catholic Church in East Asia—China mainland, Mongolia, Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan—from its beginnings to the present. It aims to offer sufficient material and analysis for the study and research of the East Asian Catholic Church. It follows a chronological framework tracing events from the 7th-century to the 21st-century. 

The editors are seeking authors for the three-section Handbook. Each of the chapters is about 30 pages and 16,500 words.  If you are interested, please contact Cindy Yik-yi Chu at cindychu@hkbu.edu.hk

The chapters seeking authors are:

• Korea section

• Chapter 7: Church Architecture and Church Buildings

• Chapter 8: Evangelization through Education, from Simple Schooling to Universities

• Chapter 10: Evangelization through Music and Religious Hymns

• Japan section

• Chapter 4: Foreign Missionaries, 1900-1945

• Chapter 5: Foreign Missionaries and the Building of the Local Church Hierarchy, 1945 to the Present

• Chapter 8: Evangelization through Education, from Simple Schooling to Universities

• Chapter 9: Bible and Religious Literature Translation, and Indigenous Religious Texts

• Chapter 10: Evangelization through Music and Religious Hymns

• Chapter 11: Evangelization through Paintings and Sculptures (Images)

Contact:

Cindy Yik-yi Chu (Editor of the Christianity in Modern China Series of Palgrave Macmillan) (Professor of History, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University)

Address: Room 1152, 11th Floor. Academic and Administration Building. 15 Baptist University Road. Kowloon Tong, Kowloon. Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 3411 7182
Fax: (852) 3411 7885

Email: cindychu@hkbu.edu.hk

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