20/05/2024 15:30 - 16:30

HALL: LA PIRA - ROOM 3

Proponent: Stoeckl K.

Chair: Tonelli D.

Speaker: Casanova J., Cesari J., Pace V., Phan P.C., Stoeckl K., Tonelli D.

In this Author Meets Critics Panel, José Casanova and Peter C. Phan will present their edited volume "Asian Pacific Catholicism and Globalization. Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges"  (Georgetown UP 2023) and discuss the book with Vincenzo Pace. The book about the history of the Catholic Church in Asia and the Pacific illuminates processes of globalization: Since the sixteenth century, Catholicism has contributed significantly to global connectivity. The authors in the volume have approached the historical processes of globalization not as structural agencies or causal forces, but rather as the historical contexts that condition possibilities for human action and reaction in the world, exemplified by the Catholic Church in China, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, India, and Australia.