Introducing World Christianity [electronic resource]
This interdisciplinary introduction offers students a truly global overview of the worldwide spread and impact of Christianity. It is enriched throughout by detailed historic and ethnographic material, showing how broad themes within Christianity have been adopted and adapted by Christian denominati...
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introducing World Christianity; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Map 0.1 Percentage majority religion by province, 2010; Introduction; Part I: Africa; 1 Middle Eastern and North African Christianity: Persisting in the Lands of Islam; 2 Christian Belongings in East Africa: Flocking to the Churches; 3 West African Christianity: Padres, Pastors, Prophets, and Pentecostals; 4 Christianity in Southern Africa: The Aesthetics of Well-Being; Part II: Europe; 5 Christianity in Western Europe: Mission Fields, Old and New?
- 6 Christianity in Eastern Europe: A Story of Pain, Glory, Persecution, and FreedomPart III: Asia; 7 Christianity in South Asia: Negotiating Religious Pluralism; 8 Christianity in Southeast Asia: Similarity and Difference in a Culturally Diverse Region; 9 Christianity in East Asia: Evangelicalism and the March First Independence Movement in Korea; Part IV: Americas; 10 Christianity in North America: Changes and Challenges in a Land of Promise; 11 Central America and the Caribbean: Christianity on the Periphery; 12 Christianity in Latin America: Changing Churches in a Changing Continent.
- 13 Brazilian Charisma: Pentecostalized Christianity in Latin America's Largest NationPart V: The Pacific; 14 Christianity in Australia and New Zealand: Faith and Politics in Secular Soil; 15 Christianity in Polynesia: Transforming the Islands; 16 Christianity in Micronesia: The Interplay between Church and Culture; 17 Christianity in Melanesia: Transforming the Warrior Spirit; Conclusion: World Christianity
- Its History, Spread, and Social Influence; Index.