Michel Chambon (Editor) Michel Chambon is a cultural anthropologist and Catholic theologian specializing in Chinese forms of Christianity. He has conducted fieldwork in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Fujian, publishing on various facets of contemporary Chinese Christianity, such as the agency of Christian buildings, Protestant calisthenics, Chinese Catholic nuns, and more. His monograph, Making Christ Present in China: Actor-Network Theory and the Anthropology of Christianity , explores six Christian communities in a small city in northern Fujian to examine how to conceptualize both the unity and diversity of Christianity. As a research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, he has launched and coordinates the Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics (ISAC). James Ponniah (Editor) James Ponniah is the Head in charge of the Department of Christian Studies at the University of Madras and the director of ACCS (Asian Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies), Panayur. He is also one of the chief editors of IJAC (International Journal of Asian Christianity), a Scopus indexed journal published by the Brill. He was formerly the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pontifical Institute of Philosophy and Religion, Pune. He obtained both his M.

A. (in Vaishnavism) and doctorate (on Sudalaimadan Cult) from the University of Madras. His publications include The Dynamics of Folk Religion in Society: Pericentralisation as Deconstruction of Sanskritisation, Dancing Peacock: Indian Insight into Religion and Redevelopment , Identity , Difference and Conflict: Postcolonial Critique, Committed to the Church and the Country , Psycho-Spiritual Mentoring of Adolescents and Culture, Religion and Home-Making in and beyond South Asia, Democratization of Indian Christianity: Hegemony, Accessibility, and Resistance and Indian Christianity and its Transformative Potentials .