The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia

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The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia is written by Cindy Yik-yi Chu and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9819706599 (ISBN 10) and 9789819706594 (ISBN 13).

This Handbook analyses explores the Catholic Church in East Asia following a chronological framework to trace events to the 21st century. This Handbook considers the horizontal strata of society through space, examining key issues such as church architecture, music and images, the Church's role in education, linguistic and translation issues surrounding Bible studies, evangelization and the building of Church hierarchy, religious formation, and gender relations. Exploring the Vatican’s relations with East Asian countries from the beginning of the Church in Asia, this Handbook offers a key reference to Asian Church history for students and researchers in Christianity studies, History, Cultural and Asian studies.