Jason Bruner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3826307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Bruner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruner |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies975 S. Myrtle Ave. P.O. Box 874302, Mail code 4302 Tempe, AZ 85287-4302 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Image and Imagination in Photographing American Religion: A Review Essay
Power Circuits: Asymmetries of Global Christianity
This article examines the idea of global Christianity in scholarship and the postcolonial and present imperial conditions that underlie it. Through an analysis of the fields of World Christianity and the anthropology of Christianity, it considers how Western Christian histories and power dynamics have impacted Christian traditions of the Global South and seriously considers the pervasive logics of geopolitical power that transform local contexts–…
Intra-Christian Violence and the Problematisation of the World Christian Paradigm
Violence is a crucial lens for inquiring historically into Christianity worldwide. The field of World Christianity, however, has been oriented by a paradigm of growth, success and Christian converts’ creative agency. This article establishes the need for a historiographical intervention in the literature on World Christianity through a critical analysis of texts that have formed the field, followed by examinations of anti-Evangelical violence in …
Imagining Persecution: Why American Christians Believe There Is a Global War against Their Faith
Many American Christians have come to understand their relationship to other Christian denominations and traditions through the lens of religious persecution. This book provides a historical account of these developments, showing the global, theological, and political changes that made it possible for contemporary Christians to claim that there is a global war on Christians. This book, however, does not advocate on behalf of particular repressed …
Under Caesar’s Sword: How Christians Respond to Persecution , edited by Daniel Philpott and Timothy Samuel Shah
If one only read the most prominent selections of World Christianity texts—Andrew Walls’s The Translation Principle in Christian History, or the late Lamin Sanneh’s West African Christianity, for example—one would likely see the assumptions that underlie the field in general: that Christianity is diverse and expanding; that the reasons for its expansion and diversity are due more to the creative agency of non-Euro-American converts than to Wester…
Moving beyond Discontinuity in Religious Conversion in Africa: A Preface to the Special Issue
This Special Issue emerged through a conversation about how to foster new lines of analysis with respect to religious, cultural, and social change on the African continent [...]
New Approaches to 'Converts' and 'Conversion' in Africa: An Introduction to the Special Issue
It is our goal in this special issue on "Religious Conversion in Africa" to examine the limitations of a long-standing bias toward Christianity with respect to the study of "conversion." Furthermore, we want to use this issue to prime other scholarly approaches to cultural change on the continent, beginning as early as the medieval period, including the colonial and early postcolonial eras, and extending to the contemporary. There are several rea…
Conversion and the Problem of Discontinuity in the East African Revival
This essay focuses upon particular elements of testimonies within the East African Revival in late colonial Uganda, giving analytical priority to the voice-hearing experiences of converts that often precipitated their conversion. While conversion within this movement aligns broadly with recent interest in discontinuity in Christian conversion, this essay highlights the roles of non-Christian spirits in fomenting radical religious change, includin…
The Cambridge Seven, Late Victorian Culture, and the Chinese Frontier
While some gender studies have examined dimensions of British masculinity with regard to the empire, they often have neglected the constitutive role that Christian faith played in the formation of British masculinity and the ways that British Christians constructed ideal masculine character. This essay reassesses the Cambridge Seven’s significance in the construction of a British evangelical masculinity in the late Victorian period. It argues tha…
The Testimony Must Begin in the Home: The Life of Salvation and the Remaking of Homes in the East African Revival in Southern Uganda, c. 1930-1955
The late colonial era in Uganda was not an easy time to keep families intact. Colonial officials, missionaries, and concerned East Africans offered their diagnoses of the problems and prescriptions for responding to the dilemma. In this context, Balokole Anglican revivalists articulated new patterns and ideals of family life. These new patterns of family life were not uniform across Uganda or East Africa, but they did share common characteristics…
Keswick and the East African Revival: An Historiographical Reappraisal
The history of the East African Revival has been understood predominantly from the perspective of British missionaries who were associated with the movement in the 1930s and 1940s. The most enduring of these narratives defined the revival by its relation to the English Keswick-influenced evangelicalism of the Western missionaries associated with the revival. This bias can be observed not only in the basic narrative of the revival, but also in the…
Inquiring into Empire: Princeton Seminary’s Society of Inquiry on Missions, the British Empire, and the Opium Trade, Ca. 1830‐1850
Princeton Seminary was intimately involved in the North American foreign missions movement in the nineteenth century. One remarkable dimension of this involvement came through the student-led Society of Inquiry on Missions, which sought to gather information about the global state of the Christian mission enterprise. This paper examines the Society’s correspondence with Protestant missionaries in China regarding their attitudes to the British Emp…
Keswick and the East African Revival: An Historiographical Reappraisal
The history of the East African Revival has been understood predominantly from the perspective of British missionaries who were associated with the movement in the 1930s and 1940s. The most enduring of these narratives defined the revival by its relation to the English Keswick-influenced evangelicalism of the Western missionaries associated with the revival. This bias can be observed not only in the basic narrative of the revival, but also in the…
Conversion and the Problem of Discontinuity in the East African Revival
This essay focuses upon particular elements of testimonies within the East African Revival in late colonial Uganda, giving analytical priority to the voice-hearing experiences of converts that often precipitated their conversion. While conversion within this movement aligns broadly with recent interest in discontinuity in Christian conversion, this essay highlights the roles of non-Christian spirits in fomenting radical religious change, includin…
Inquiring into Empire: Princeton Seminary’s Society of Inquiry on Missions, the British Empire, and the Opium Trade, Ca. 1830‐1850
Princeton Seminary was intimately involved in the North American foreign missions movement in the nineteenth century. One remarkable dimension of this involvement came through the student-led Society of Inquiry on Missions, which sought to gather information about the global state of the Christian mission enterprise. This paper examines the Society’s correspondence with Protestant missionaries in China regarding their attitudes to the British Emp…
Keswick and the East African Revival: An Historiographical Reappraisal
The history of the East African Revival has been understood predominantly from the perspective of British missionaries who were associated with the movement in the 1930s and 1940s. The most enduring of these narratives defined the revival by its relation to the English Keswick-influenced evangelicalism of the Western missionaries associated with the revival. This bias can be observed not only in the basic narrative of the revival, but also in the…
The Cambridge Seven, Late Victorian Culture, and the Chinese Frontier
While some gender studies have examined dimensions of British masculinity with regard to the empire, they often have neglected the constitutive role that Christian faith played in the formation of British masculinity and the ways that British Christians constructed ideal masculine character. This essay reassesses the Cambridge Seven’s significance in the construction of a British evangelical masculinity in the late Victorian period. It argues tha…
The Testimony Must Begin in the Home: The Life of Salvation and the Remaking of Homes in the East African Revival in Southern Uganda, c. 1930-1955
The late colonial era in Uganda was not an easy time to keep families intact. Colonial officials, missionaries, and concerned East Africans offered their diagnoses of the problems and prescriptions for responding to the dilemma. In this context, Balokole Anglican revivalists articulated new patterns and ideals of family life. These new patterns of family life were not uniform across Uganda or East Africa, but they did share common characteristics…
Conversion and the Problem of Discontinuity in the East African Revival
This essay focuses upon particular elements of testimonies within the East African Revival in late colonial Uganda, giving analytical priority to the voice-hearing experiences of converts that often precipitated their conversion. While conversion within this movement aligns broadly with recent interest in discontinuity in Christian conversion, this essay highlights the roles of non-Christian spirits in fomenting radical religious change, includin…
Under Caesar’s Sword: How Christians Respond to Persecution , edited by Daniel Philpott and Timothy Samuel Shah
If one only read the most prominent selections of World Christianity texts—Andrew Walls’s The Translation Principle in Christian History, or the late Lamin Sanneh’s West African Christianity, for example—one would likely see the assumptions that underlie the field in general: that Christianity is diverse and expanding; that the reasons for its expansion and diversity are due more to the creative agency of non-Euro-American converts than to Wester…
Moving beyond Discontinuity in Religious Conversion in Africa: A Preface to the Special Issue
This Special Issue emerged through a conversation about how to foster new lines of analysis with respect to religious, cultural, and social change on the African continent [...]
New Approaches to 'Converts' and 'Conversion' in Africa: An Introduction to the Special Issue
It is our goal in this special issue on "Religious Conversion in Africa" to examine the limitations of a long-standing bias toward Christianity with respect to the study of "conversion." Furthermore, we want to use this issue to prime other scholarly approaches to cultural change on the continent, beginning as early as the medieval period, including the colonial and early postcolonial eras, and extending to the contemporary. There are several rea…
Imagining Persecution: Why American Christians Believe There Is a Global War against Their Faith
Many American Christians have come to understand their relationship to other Christian denominations and traditions through the lens of religious persecution. This book provides a historical account of these developments, showing the global, theological, and political changes that made it possible for contemporary Christians to claim that there is a global war on Christians. This book, however, does not advocate on behalf of particular repressed …
Intra-Christian Violence and the Problematisation of the World Christian Paradigm
Violence is a crucial lens for inquiring historically into Christianity worldwide. The field of World Christianity, however, has been oriented by a paradigm of growth, success and Christian converts’ creative agency. This article establishes the need for a historiographical intervention in the literature on World Christianity through a critical analysis of texts that have formed the field, followed by examinations of anti-Evangelical violence in …
Power Circuits: Asymmetries of Global Christianity
This article examines the idea of global Christianity in scholarship and the postcolonial and present imperial conditions that underlie it. Through an analysis of the fields of World Christianity and the anthropology of Christianity, it considers how Western Christian histories and power dynamics have impacted Christian traditions of the Global South and seriously considers the pervasive logics of geopolitical power that transform local contexts–…
Image and Imagination in Photographing American Religion: A Review Essay
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