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Quakers in Asia-Pacific
Stephanie Midori Komashin2018, The Cambridge Companion to Quakerismhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781316480021.014
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Komashin offers an overview of the highly diverse nature of Quakerism in Southeast Asia and Australasia (Asia Pacific) with a case study on Friends in Japan. While not ignoring other sorts of Friends churches and meetings, Komashin provides an important window into the origins and growth of evangelical Friends churches in Bhutan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia and elsewhere in the region. Komashin draws a parallel between Asian Friends churches and those Friends churches in Latin America and Africa, in that Friends churches in each of these regions are primed for rapid growth. She also provides vivid detail about differences between all of these Friends churches, even those within the same branch. Mission is a central theme throughout all of these chapters as well as the continual development of new local groups of Quakerism, adapting to new contexts, new challenges and new opportunities. Spanning from India in the west, up to China in the north, and down to New Zealand in the southeast, the Asia-Pacific region is home to approximately 35,000 Friends in about twenty countries. By the numbers, close to 90% are Evangelical, 6% are non-pastoral Programmed, and 5% are Unprogrammed. This chapter looks beyond these statistics by outlining the work of Quakers, and touches on Quaker-related organizations that operate in the region.
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