China’s House Churches have gone through intensive persecution in recent
years: church buildings closed by government forces, leaders imprisoned, biblical
materials seized, and members under constant threats of imprisonment. ...
Navaneethakrishnan, S.; Balakailasanathasarma, M.(University of jaffna, 2024)
Coexistence of diverse religious faith is found in many countries of the
world. Christian Sanskrit Literature have a major role in religious Sanskrit Literature.
Christians translated or Sanskritized their canonical works ...
Sri Lanka, an Indian sub-continent nation, is home to four major world religions:
Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. The civil district of Batticaloa, located
on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, has experienced ...
This study delves into the substantial contribution of CMS Missionaries to the educational,
cultural, and spiritual development of the people of Jaffna during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The 19th century is often labeled ...
Dinosha, S.; Shanthini, A.(University of jaffna, 2024)
The nation had several socio-cultural developments from the 16th to the 19th
century. The Dutch dominated Ceylon’s marine regions from 1656 until 1796. The
Dutch were primarily motivated to conquer Sri Lanka because they ...
Parimalachchelvan, S. D.(University of jaffna, 2024)
By and large ‘anthropocentricism’ has been controlled everything and developed
an episteme and given secondary status to other beings ‘Emancipation of only human
being’ taken for granted and “emancipation of all the ...
Wijith Rohan Fernando, P.(University of jaffna, 2024)
The main aim of this Passion Play is to introduce a new paradigm for presentday
Passion Play writers. This is realised by highlighting the pastoral implications of
appropriately interpreting the passion and death of Jesus ...
The Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) in response to the call
of the Vatican II to become the People of God has been trying to build up the Asian
Church as a communion. Asia is a continent blessed with many ...
“Have the religions lost their nature and purpose in Sri Lanka?’’ The prolonged
civil war, attacks on religious worshiping places and the hatred attitude and rivalry
among the religions make one to ask this question ...
Public theology is an effort to make decisions for the common good from a
Christian perspective. This study focuses on the challenges faced by the estate women
from a public theological perspective. In the Sri Lankan ...
The Tamils of Sri Lanka were forced to opt for violent means to safeguard their
basic and innate human rights. The visible outcome of the internal groaning is the
armed struggle for more than three decades. The pathetic ...
Religion and ideologies can play significant roles in promoting the common
good by providing ethical frameworks, guiding moral values, and fostering a sense of
community and solidarity. Here are some ways in which religion ...
This comprehensive exploration delves into the multifaceted dimensions of the
gender question within Asian Christianity, examining diverse perspectives shaped by
theological, cultural, and social influences. Theological ...
We find ourselves in the age of science, where science is so powerful that it
cannot be ignored, whether one is a believer or not. Modern science comes to us as a
mixed bag of blessings and caution. On the one hand, we ...
This essay attempts to critically examine the notion of ‘declaration of faith’ in
the contemporary South Indian socio-political context, primarily to analyze and bring
forth new patterns of social conflict between ‘believed ...
Coined by Zizi Papacharissi (2014) , the idea of affective publics refers to the
changing nature of the contemporary publics and focuses on their relational, processual,
and performative character in a complex digital/mobile ...
The onslaught of COVID-19, war between Russia and Ukraine, the communal
violence in Manipur, and so on, leads us to an important area of concern that the public
theology in Asia should listen sensitively and attentively: ...
It is often argued that theology and anthropology share an ‘awkward relationship.’
To analyse the relation between the two, this paper explores the everyday lives of the
Christians residing in a Bengali Christian ...
Empire building, within a politico-historical context, can be defined as
monopolisation of power and cultural homogenisation. In the wake of imperial
expansion, the geopolitical analysis has increasingly become significant. ...
In today’s increasingly interconnected global society, the challenges of nurturing
peaceful coexistence among a mosaic of cultures and religions have surged to the
forefront. This exploration delves deeply into the ...