Asian Catholic Materials and Spaces

Abstract While the material turn in religious studies has proven highly productive in challenging longstanding assumptions within the social scientific study of religion and in opening new avenues for research on contemporary Christianity, this special issue shifts the focus specifically to Asian Catholics and the material forms through which their faith is lived and expressed. It argues that a material and regionally grounded approach enables the development of a more integral framework – one that recognizes Asian Catholics as active participants in, and representatives of, the Global Church on equal footing with any other Catholic community.