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Between Different Cultures

Name: Between Different Cultures
Author: David Jasper
ISBN: 9781481322201

Essays in Conversation with Yang Huilin

Edited by David Jasper and Jing (Cathy) Zhang

Published by: Baylor University Press

Imprint: Baylor University Press

Ten Western scholars respond to essays by Professor Yang Huilin on global theological, religious, and cultural debates.

Sales Date: Friday, 15th Aug 2025

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The significance of the work of Yang Huilin (Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing) is widely recognized in numerous scholarly fields. Professor Yang’s career is further distinguished by his service as vice president of Renmin University and as president of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association. The author of numerous books in the fields of cultural studies, comparative literature, and religion, in 2015 Professor Yang was awarded a Christianity Today Book Award for his book China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture (Baylor UP).

In celebration of Professor Yang’s scholarly contributions, Between Different Cultures presents a representative collection of the editorials Professor Yang has written for the journal he founded in 1999, the Journal for the Study of Christian Culture, of which he is the current editor. Each editorial, originally written in Chinese, is paired with an essay from a leading European or North American scholar whose work has connected with Yang Huilin. These essays illustrate the remarkable range of Professor Yang’s scholarship and his involvement with many of the most important issues in global cultural and theological debates over the past three decades.

A tireless traveler, Professor Yang has made numerous friendships with scholars across the world, and those relationships have in turn contributed to the cultural exchanges between the West and China. In just such a spirit of camaraderie and collaboration, these essays are offered as a token of admiration and regard.

IntroductionDavid Jasper and Zhang Jing 1 The Public Face of Theology and the Theological Concern of Humanity ScholarsYang Huilin Response: Adjunct TheologyAlexander Chow 2 Being Absent in PlaceYang Huilin Response: The Outsources of Public TheologyAndrew W. Hass 3 What Is a Theological Event?Yang HuilinResponse: What Is a Theological Event?Alison Jasper 4 The Common Significance of Poetics and TheologyYang Huilin Response: Poetry and Theology in ChinaDavid Jasper 5 "Reasoning" in the Reading of ScripturesYang HuilinResponse: Yang Huilin and the Promise of Chinese Scriptural ReasoningDavid F. Ford6 The "Verbal" Logic of Cultural Identity: Shifts in Missionaries’ Identities and Sense of IdentificationYang HuilinResponse: Musing on Missionary IdentityChloë Starr7 "Translating the Scripture" and "Interpreting the Scripture"Yang HuilinResponse: Faith and Love in Intercultural HermeneuticsWerner Jeanrond8 How Can the Discourse of Faith Intervene in the World?: Jürgen Moltmann and the Significance of "Hope"Yang HuilinResponse: Persistent HopeJürgen Moltmann9 A "Nonreligious" Christianity and an "Atheist" TheologyYang HuilinResponse: Understanding ScriptureDavid Lyle Jeffrey10 The Origin and Extension of Concerns on the "Ultimate"Yang HuilinResponse: Opposite yet ComplementaryRoland BoerBibliography of the Work of Yang Huilin

David Jasper is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow and former Chang Jiang Visiting Professor at Renmin University.

Zhang Jing (Cathy) is Associate Researcher at the Institute for the Promotion of Chinese Language and Culture at Renmin University.

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