World Christianity

ISBN-13: 9780415468275 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 1904 str.

Elizabeth Koepping

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Two-thirds of the world’s Christians live in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and this new interdisciplinary collection of articles on World Christianity from Routledge brings together specialist contributions from around the world, including Pentecostal and various Reform churches, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran and independent churches.

The materials have been arranged around the core themes of contextualization, external and internal power, theological and ethnic marginalization, civic and ancestral identity, mission and conversion, and cover Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and South America, Oceania, and the indigenous people of North America and Australasia.

The collection draws on the latest work from theology, anthropology, the sociology of religion, missiology, and religious studies, enabling users to grasp the very varied presentation of the Christian faith, the socio-cultural negotiation, accommodation, renovation, and the challenges to what the collection editor calls a ‘Euro-American Christian taken-for-granted’ understanding, theology and praxis from ‘the world beyond’.

Fully indexed, and containing comprehensive introductions newly written by the editor, World Christianity is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research resource.

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Volume I  Part 1: Context and Content  Part 2: Foundations: The Bible as agreed text
Part 3: The Early Church in the Eastern Mediterranean  Part 4: Early Christian Expansion: From Tunis to China  Part 5: Consolidation on Five Continents  Part 6: Elite Assumptions and Lay Agency  Part 7: Inter-Continental Enlightenment?  Volume II  Part 8: Nation, State, and Person in 19th-Century World Christianity  Part 9: Gender, Education and Conversion  Part 10: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Nation  Part 11: Local Agents of Mission  Part 12:  Roman Catholic Fields of Engagement with Pentecostals
Part 13: Negotiating Religious and Political Competition  Volume III  Part 14: Living Texts  Part 15: Discerning Theology in Context  Part 16: Relating to Place  Part 17: Texts Biblical and Local  Part 18: Internal and External Structures  Part 19: Cross-National Pentecostalism Past and Present  Volume IV  Part 20: Clothed for Glory: Dress for Christians  Part 21: Church within Walls  Part 22: Church Beyond Walls: The Performance of Pilgrimage  Part 23: Performing Christianity  Part 24: Issues for Christianity in the Twenty-First Century Volume I  Part 1: Context and Content  Part 2: Foundations: The Bible as agreed text  Part 3: The Early Church in the Eastern Mediterranean  Part 4: Early Christian Expansion: From Tunis to China  Part 5: Consolidation on Five Continents  Part 6: Elite Assumptions and Lay Agency
Part 7: Inter-Continental Enlightenment?  Volume II  Part 8: Nation, State, and Person in 19th-Century World Christianity  Part 9: Gender, Education and Conversion  Part 10: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Nation  Part 11: Local Agents of Mission  Part 12:  Roman Catholic Fields of Engagement with Pentecostals  Part 13: Negotiating Religious and Political Competition  Volume III  Part 14: Living Texts  Part 15: Discerning Theology in Context  Part 16: Relating to Place  Part 17: Texts Biblical and Local  Part 18: Internal and External Structures  Part 19: Cross-National Pentecostalism Past and Present  Volume IV  Part 20: Clothed for Glory: Dress for Christians  Part 21: Church within Walls  Part 22: Church Beyond Walls: The Performance of Pilgrimage  Part 23: Performing Christianity  Part 24: Issues for Christianity in the Twenty-First Century