Building the Church in pluricultural Asia

The present volume publishes some of the papers of the Jerusalem Symposium which have more directly to do with inculturation in Asia. The first, by Robert Hardawiryana, presents a little "summa" on inculturation in the pluricultural situation of Asia. The second one, by Arul M. Varaprasadam, is a presentation of the growing of the Church in the ethnic, religious and cultural pluralism of India. The third study, by Kees Bertens and the fourth, by J. B. Banawiratma, deal with inculturation in Indonesia. The sixth, by Maria Elena Chiong-Xavier, is an anthropological study on the cultural change provoked by the preaching of the Gospel in the Philippines. The seventh, by Peter Knecht, highlights the problem of ancestors' worship in the Japanese religious and cultural consciousness. The last study, by Jospeh Dinh Duc Dao, deals with Zen meditation and inculturation in the Asian context.