Asia in the making of Christianity [[electronic resource]] : conversion, agency, and indigeneity, 1600s to the present / / edited by Richard Fox Young and Jonathan A. Seitz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786975503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Mass., : Brill, c2013
• ISBN: 90-04-25129-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (466 p.)
• Collana: Social Sciences in Asia ; ; Volume 35
• Altri autori (Persone): YoungRichard Fox; SeitzJonathan A
• Disciplina: 275
• Soggetti: Christian converts - Asia; Asia Church history
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Richard Fox Young and Jonathan A. Seitz -- Early Christian Conversion in Seventeenth-Century Cochinchina / Nola Cooke -- Translating Spirits: Protestants, Possessions, and the Grammars of Conversion in Shandong Province / Richard Burden -- Preaching (傳 chuan), Worshipping (拜 bai), and Believing (信 xin): Recasting the Conversionary Process in South China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee -- Conversion to Mission Christianity among the Kachin of Upper Burma 1877–1972 / La Seng Dingrin -- Have the Mitdes Gone Silent? Conversion, Rhetoric, and the Continuing Importance of the Lower Deities in Northeast India / Erik de Maaker -- Is Conversion to Christianity Pantheon Theocide? Fragility and Durability in Early Diasporic Chinese Protestantism / Jonathan A. Seitz -- Conversion without \'Commotion\': Rev. Lal Behari Day’s Candramukhīr Upākhyān (Story of Candramukhī) / Sipra Mukherjee -- Loss and Gain: An ‘Intellectualist’ Conversion and Its Socio-Cognitive Calculus in the Hindu-Christian Life of Nehemiah Goreh / Richard Fox Young -- The Enigma of Christian Conversion in Modern Japan: The Case of Two Buddhist Priests / Gregory Vanderbilt -- \'Becoming Faithful\': Conversion, Syncretism, and the Interreligious Hermeneutical Strategies of the \'Faithful of Jesus\' (Īsā īmāndārs) in Today’s Bangladesh / Jonas Adelin Jørgensen -- Does the Divine Physician Have ; an Unfair Advantage? Healing and the Politics of Conversion in Twentieth-Century India / Chad M. Bauman -- Conversion and Moral Ambiguity: An Chunggŭn, Nationalism and the Catholic Church in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Korea / Franklin Rausch -- Connecting Disconnections: Troubling Meanings of Christian Conversion in Imperial North India / Rhonda Semple -- The Illusion of Conversion: Śiva Meets Mary at Vēḷāṅkaṇṇi in Southern India / Matthias Frenz -- Conversion to Christianity among the Thai and Sino-Thai of Modern Thailand: Growth, Experimentation, and Networking in the Contemporary Context / Edwin Zehner -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on first person accounts, Asia in the Making of Christianity studies conversion in the lives of Christians throughout Asia, past and present. Fifteen contributors treat perennial questions about conversion: continuity and discontinuity, conversion and communal conflict, and the politics of conversion. Some study individuals (An Chunggŭn of Korea, Liang Fa of China, Nehemiah Goreh of India), while others treat ethnolinguistic groups or large-scale movements. Converts sometimes appear as proto-nationalists, while others are suspected of cultural treason. Some transition effortlessly from leadership in one religious community into Christian ministry, while others re-convert to new forms of Christianity. The accounts collected here underscore the complexity of conversion, balancing individual agency with broader social trends and combining micro- with macrocontextual approaches.

Exchange Rate Risk Measurement and Management : : Issues and Approaches for Firms / / Michael Papaioannou

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972470603321
• Autore: Papaioannou Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006
• ISBN: 9786613825896; 9781462313471; 1462313477; 9781452784441; 1452784442; 9781283513449; 1283513447; 9781451909685; 1451909683
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (22 p.)
• Collana: IMF Working Papers
• Soggetti: Foreign exchange rates - Mathematical models; Risk management - Mathematical models; Banks and Banking; Capital and Ownership Structure; Currencies; Currency; Exchange rate risk; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Financial risk management; Financial services law & regulation; Financing Policy; Foreign currency exposure; Foreign exchange market; Foreign Exchange; Foreign exchange; Goodwill; Government and the Monetary System; Hedging; Monetary economics; Monetary Systems; Money and Monetary Policy; Money; Payment Systems; Regimes; Standards; Value of Firms; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "November 2006".
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. DEFINITION AND TYPES OF EXCHANGE RATE RISK""; ""III. MEASUREMENT OF EXCHANGE RATE RISK""; ""IV. MANAGEMENT OF EXCHANGE RATE RISK""; ""V. HEDGING INSTRUMENTS FOR MANAGING EXCHANGE RATE RISK""; ""VI. HEDGING PRACTICES BY U.S. FIRMS""; ""VII. CONCLUDING REMARKS""; ""REFERENCES""
• Sommario/riassunto: Measuring and managing exchange rate risk exposure is important for reducing a firm's vulnerabilities from major exchange rate movements, which could adversely affect profit margins and the value of assets. This paper reviews the traditional types of exchange rate risk faced by firms, namely transaction, translation and economic risks, presents the VaR approach as the currently predominant method of measuring a firm's exchange rate risk exposure, and examines the main advantages and disadvantages of various exchange rate risk management strategies, including tactical versus strategical and passive versus active hedging. In addition, it outlines a set of widely accepted best practices in managing currency risk and presents some of the main hedging instruments in the OTC and exchange-traded markets. The paper also provides some data on the use of financial derivatives instruments, and hedging practices by U.S. firms.