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Christianity in Asia' explores the spread of the religion across Asia, and the art it inspired. This fully illustrated catalogue is aimed at a general audience, and accompanies the first exhibition exclusively dedicated to this topic. The book shows how local artists interpreted well-established Christian iconography, with new materials, and in often surprising ways. Essays explore earliest Christian art in Central Asia, India, and China; interest in Christian art at the Islamic courts; and works associated with missionary activities in China, South and Southeast Asia, and Japan. Exhibition: Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore (27.05.-11.09.2016) Christian art in Asia / Alan Chong -- What makes Asian art Christian? / Pedro Moura Carvalho -- Early Christianity in Central Asia and China / Ken Parry -- Monuments of Indian Christian art, problem of genres, dating, and context / István Perczel -- Christian art at the Islamic courts / Alan Chong -- Illustrations to mirror of holiness (mi'rat al-quds), a 1602 text by the Jesuit Jerome Xavier / Pedro Moura Carvalho -- Ivory Catechism, Christian sculpture from Goa and Sri Lanka / Maria da Conceição Borges de Sousa -- Christianity in China, Yuan to Qing dynaties, 13th to 20th centuries / Lauren Arnold -- Christianity in Japan, 1549-1639 / Clement Onn -- Christian ivories by Chinese artists, Macau, the Philippines, and elsewherem late 16th and 17th centuries / Alan Chong -- Protestantism in the Dutch Indies in the 17th century / Alan Chong -- Christianity in the Philippines / David Alan Henkel -- Christianity in Singapore in the 19th century / Loh Pei Ying
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