Richard Fox Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Fox Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard Fox |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Presbyterians and the Cold Truth about the Hot War in North Korea, 1950–53
In the aftermath of the Korean War, the political economy of South Korea was inhospitable toward a reckoning with responsibility for atrocities committed above and below the 38th Parallel. A succession of authoritarian regimes in the South, each prioritizing industrial development, required a narrative about North Korea that made Communists responsible for untold numbers of civilian deaths. Fifty years later, in 2001, a literary work by Hwang Sok…
The Surprising African Jesus
“Truly Christian, but no longer European”—these words from the introduction to The Surprising African Jesus (14) describe exactly how I felt years ago when I opened an earlier but similar collection with the intriguing title Jesus of the Deep Forest (1981), also translated from Tvi by Fr. Jon Kirby of the Society of the Divine Word. To Fr. Kirby, the Anglophone theological world owes a debt of gratitude for introducing us to Afua Kuma (1908–1987)…
The Greater India Experiment
An unusual book, The Greater India Experiment is itself an experiment that stretches the limits of conventional ethnography of the kind that specialists in a variety of fields, including world Christianity, are now familiar with. Being from Nagaland, one of the highland states in Northeast India, means that the author, Arkotong Longkumer, a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, brings to his project a certain firsthand intimacy…
Discourses of Indigenous Christian Elites in Colonial Societies in Asia and Africa around 1900
For the period covered by the Sourcebook (effectively, 1885–1915), a good research library in Europe or North America will house at least a few missionary periodicals from the global South; of course, more in the digital age will be available online, making it relatively easy to read up on what it was that missionaries wanted the world to know about their work abroad. Whether they be British Anglican, American Presbyterian, or of some other denom…
A Historian/Historian of Religions’ Response
As a historian-cum-historian of religion, I welcome the fine collection of essays in this special issue of the journal, contributed by a promising cohort of emerging ethnographers of World Christianity. As a non-ethnographer, I employ as a baseline measure of their endeavors the characteristic historiography of the field, in particular the value it places on indigenous appropriation over missionary transmission (an approach pioneered by Andrew Wa…
Was the Sanskrit Bible the ‘English Bible-in-Disguise’
The essay explores Bible translation in early nineteenth-century India as a comprehensive and under-appreciated site for intercultural and interreligious interactions involving Christians and Hindus in a complex context of asymmetrical colonial relations. Postcolonial theorists are interrogated for theory-driven approaches that lopsidedly rely on English-language resources without taking into account the actual Indian-language artefacts of transl…
Asia in the Making of Christianity
Drawing on first person accounts, Asia in the Making of Christianity studies conversion in the lives of Christians throughout Asia, past and present. Fifteen contributors treat perennial questions about conversion: continuity and discontinuity, conversion and communal conflict, and the politics of conversion. Some study individuals (An Chunggŭn of Korea, Liang Fa of China, Nehemiah Goreh of India), while others treat ethnolinguistic groups or lar…
Clearing a Path through Jesus of the Deep Forest
First, an ideal is articulated, that African “mother-tongue” theologies would be good not only for Africa, intraculturally, but also for theologies of the global North, interculturally. Second, a hermeneutical problem is identified, that of reading (translated) theological texts from the African vernaculars out of context, without regard for African traditional religion as the matrix from which they emerge. Third, a (partial) solution is adumbrat…
Obliged by Grace
A study in the history of the history of religions at Princeton Theological Seminary, the article reflects on the contribution of an under-appreciated figure on the faculty, Edward Jurji, a Syrian Christian acclaimed as a scholar of Islam and as a phenomenologist. Jurji’s intellectual odyssey is traced as he emerged from the shadow of his predecessor Samuel Zwemer, famed (and reviled) as a missionary polemicist in the Middle East, to become an av…
Princeton theological seminary's museum of religion and missions
(2012). Princeton theological seminary's museum of religion and missions. Material Religion: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 108-109
World Christian Historiography, Theological ‘Enthusiasms’, and the Writing of R. E. Frykenberg’s Christianity in India
Since the nineteenth century, India’s Christian history has been the subject of several ambitious master narratives, with coverage from deep antiquity into each author’s respective ‘present’. The most recent attempt, published in 2008 by Oxford University Press, is Christianity in India , by historian R. E. Frykenberg. Against all naysayers, Frykenberg puts forward a case that Christianity is Indian and must be studied as an Indian religion. Like…
Holy Orders
Using the example of Nehemiah Goreh, a mid nineteenth-century Brahmin Hindu convert to Christianity, the essay explores how Anglican missionaries interacted with Indian counterparts, sometimes encouraging their ordination (as was the case in the South), or (as was the case in the North) placing obstacles in their way. After an agonistically 'cognitive' struggle with Christian faith, Goreh was recommended for ordination by the Low-Church Anglican …
Interreligious Literacy and Hermeneutical Responsibility
Getting seminarians up to speed on interreligious literacy is not a luxury but a necessity. Still, how much knowledge, or what kind, does one need in order to learn from another religion theologically? What might a serious attempt at interreligious understanding actually look like? Learning from the religions theologically will not look the same as it does when we learn about them phenomenologically and historically. While acts of interreligious …
The ‘Scotch Metaphysics’ in 19th Century Benares
That India once had a sustained ‘dialogue’ with Scottish Philosophy is not gener- ally known, or that the exchange occurred in the medium of Sanskrit, not English. The essay explores an important cross-cultural encounter in the colonial context of mid 19th-century Benares where two Scots, John Muir and James Ballantyne, served as principals of a Sanskrit college established by the East India Company. Educated toward the end of the Scottish Enligh…
The Carpenter-Prēta
L'A. presente un conte folklorique sri-lankais qui envisage Jesus-Christ comme une emanation de Māra. En decrivant Jesus comme demoniaque et hostile au bouddhisme, les sri-lankais situent le christianisme dans le contexte d'une rivalite cosmique entre le Dhamma et les forces chaotiques de Māra. L'arriere-plan hindou de certains motifs du conte est considere. Ses origines sont probablement a situer dans le milieu politico-religieux du royaume de K…
Japanese New Religions in the West
Liquid Life
1Original ConceptsCh. 1Behind the Great Buddha3Ch. 2A World of Water and Words14Ch. 3Social Death, Social Birth30Ch. 4Jizo at the Crossroads44Pt. 2Historical ProcessesCh. 5Edo: An Era in View69Ch. 6Edo: Population89Ch. 7Edo: Polemics103Ch. 8Sex, War, and Peace119Pt. 3Contemporary IssuesCh. 9Apology143Ch. 10Moral Swamps160Ch. 11A Rational, National Family177Ch. 12Crossovers198Conclusion214Appendix: The Way to Memorialize One's Mizuko221Notes225Bib…
Religion in Contemporary Japan
Sanctuary of the Tao
(1989). Sanctuary of the Tao: The Place of Christianity in a Sino-Japanese Unity Sect (Tao Yuan) Journal of Chinese Religions: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 1-26
The Little-Lad Deity and the Dragon Princess. Jesus in a New World-Renewal Movement
The History and Theology of Soka Gakkai
Gedatsu-kai and Religion in Contemporary Japan
A Japanese New Religion
A Missionary Social Worker in India
Religionspolitik in Britisch-Indien 1793-1813
Clearing a Path through Jesus of the Deep Forest
First, an ideal is articulated, that African “mother-tongue” theologies would be good not only for Africa, intraculturally, but also for theologies of the global North, interculturally. Second, a hermeneutical problem is identified, that of reading (translated) theological texts from the African vernaculars out of context, without regard for African traditional religion as the matrix from which they emerge. Third, a (partial) solution is adumbrat…
The Carpenter-Prēta
L'A. presente un conte folklorique sri-lankais qui envisage Jesus-Christ comme une emanation de Māra. En decrivant Jesus comme demoniaque et hostile au bouddhisme, les sri-lankais situent le christianisme dans le contexte d'une rivalite cosmique entre le Dhamma et les forces chaotiques de Māra. L'arriere-plan hindou de certains motifs du conte est considere. Ses origines sont probablement a situer dans le milieu politico-religieux du royaume de K…
Resistant Hinduism
Resistant Hinduism. Sanskrit Sources on Anti-Christian Apologetics in Early Nineteenth-Century India
A Missionary Social Worker in India
Religionspolitik in Britisch-Indien 1793-1813
A Japanese New Religion
Sanctuary of the Tao
(1989). Sanctuary of the Tao: The Place of Christianity in a Sino-Japanese Unity Sect (Tao Yuan) Journal of Chinese Religions: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 1-26
The Little-Lad Deity and the Dragon Princess. Jesus in a New World-Renewal Movement
The History and Theology of Soka Gakkai
Gedatsu-kai and Religion in Contemporary Japan
Religion in Contemporary Japan
Liquid Life
1Original ConceptsCh. 1Behind the Great Buddha3Ch. 2A World of Water and Words14Ch. 3Social Death, Social Birth30Ch. 4Jizo at the Crossroads44Pt. 2Historical ProcessesCh. 5Edo: An Era in View69Ch. 6Edo: Population89Ch. 7Edo: Polemics103Ch. 8Sex, War, and Peace119Pt. 3Contemporary IssuesCh. 9Apology143Ch. 10Moral Swamps160Ch. 11A Rational, National Family177Ch. 12Crossovers198Conclusion214Appendix: The Way to Memorialize One's Mizuko221Notes225Bib…
The Carpenter-Prēta
L'A. presente un conte folklorique sri-lankais qui envisage Jesus-Christ comme une emanation de Māra. En decrivant Jesus comme demoniaque et hostile au bouddhisme, les sri-lankais situent le christianisme dans le contexte d'une rivalite cosmique entre le Dhamma et les forces chaotiques de Māra. L'arriere-plan hindou de certains motifs du conte est considere. Ses origines sont probablement a situer dans le milieu politico-religieux du royaume de K…
Japanese New Religions in the West
The ‘Scotch Metaphysics’ in 19th Century Benares
That India once had a sustained ‘dialogue’ with Scottish Philosophy is not gener- ally known, or that the exchange occurred in the medium of Sanskrit, not English. The essay explores an important cross-cultural encounter in the colonial context of mid 19th-century Benares where two Scots, John Muir and James Ballantyne, served as principals of a Sanskrit college established by the East India Company. Educated toward the end of the Scottish Enligh…
Interreligious Literacy and Hermeneutical Responsibility
Getting seminarians up to speed on interreligious literacy is not a luxury but a necessity. Still, how much knowledge, or what kind, does one need in order to learn from another religion theologically? What might a serious attempt at interreligious understanding actually look like? Learning from the religions theologically will not look the same as it does when we learn about them phenomenologically and historically. While acts of interreligious …
Holy Orders
Using the example of Nehemiah Goreh, a mid nineteenth-century Brahmin Hindu convert to Christianity, the essay explores how Anglican missionaries interacted with Indian counterparts, sometimes encouraging their ordination (as was the case in the South), or (as was the case in the North) placing obstacles in their way. After an agonistically 'cognitive' struggle with Christian faith, Goreh was recommended for ordination by the Low-Church Anglican …
World Christian Historiography, Theological ‘Enthusiasms’, and the Writing of R. E. Frykenberg’s Christianity in India
Since the nineteenth century, India’s Christian history has been the subject of several ambitious master narratives, with coverage from deep antiquity into each author’s respective ‘present’. The most recent attempt, published in 2008 by Oxford University Press, is Christianity in India , by historian R. E. Frykenberg. Against all naysayers, Frykenberg puts forward a case that Christianity is Indian and must be studied as an Indian religion. Like…
Obliged by Grace
A study in the history of the history of religions at Princeton Theological Seminary, the article reflects on the contribution of an under-appreciated figure on the faculty, Edward Jurji, a Syrian Christian acclaimed as a scholar of Islam and as a phenomenologist. Jurji’s intellectual odyssey is traced as he emerged from the shadow of his predecessor Samuel Zwemer, famed (and reviled) as a missionary polemicist in the Middle East, to become an av…
Princeton theological seminary's museum of religion and missions
(2012). Princeton theological seminary's museum of religion and missions. Material Religion: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 108-109
Asia in the Making of Christianity
Drawing on first person accounts, Asia in the Making of Christianity studies conversion in the lives of Christians throughout Asia, past and present. Fifteen contributors treat perennial questions about conversion: continuity and discontinuity, conversion and communal conflict, and the politics of conversion. Some study individuals (An Chunggŭn of Korea, Liang Fa of China, Nehemiah Goreh of India), while others treat ethnolinguistic groups or lar…
Clearing a Path through Jesus of the Deep Forest
First, an ideal is articulated, that African “mother-tongue” theologies would be good not only for Africa, intraculturally, but also for theologies of the global North, interculturally. Second, a hermeneutical problem is identified, that of reading (translated) theological texts from the African vernaculars out of context, without regard for African traditional religion as the matrix from which they emerge. Third, a (partial) solution is adumbrat…
Was the Sanskrit Bible the ‘English Bible-in-Disguise’
The essay explores Bible translation in early nineteenth-century India as a comprehensive and under-appreciated site for intercultural and interreligious interactions involving Christians and Hindus in a complex context of asymmetrical colonial relations. Postcolonial theorists are interrogated for theory-driven approaches that lopsidedly rely on English-language resources without taking into account the actual Indian-language artefacts of transl…
A Historian/Historian of Religions’ Response
As a historian-cum-historian of religion, I welcome the fine collection of essays in this special issue of the journal, contributed by a promising cohort of emerging ethnographers of World Christianity. As a non-ethnographer, I employ as a baseline measure of their endeavors the characteristic historiography of the field, in particular the value it places on indigenous appropriation over missionary transmission (an approach pioneered by Andrew Wa…
Discourses of Indigenous Christian Elites in Colonial Societies in Asia and Africa around 1900
For the period covered by the Sourcebook (effectively, 1885–1915), a good research library in Europe or North America will house at least a few missionary periodicals from the global South; of course, more in the digital age will be available online, making it relatively easy to read up on what it was that missionaries wanted the world to know about their work abroad. Whether they be British Anglican, American Presbyterian, or of some other denom…
The Greater India Experiment
An unusual book, The Greater India Experiment is itself an experiment that stretches the limits of conventional ethnography of the kind that specialists in a variety of fields, including world Christianity, are now familiar with. Being from Nagaland, one of the highland states in Northeast India, means that the author, Arkotong Longkumer, a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, brings to his project a certain firsthand intimacy…
History (24 works) · Philosophy (18 works) · Ancient history (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Religious studies (11 works) · Theology (10 works) · Art (9 works) · History (9 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (7 works)