The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global SouthOxford University Press, 2006 M09 1 - 272 páginas Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins's phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about the future of Christianity. In that volume, Jenkins called the world's attention to the little noticed fact that Christianity's center of gravity was moving inexorably southward, to the point that Africa may soon be home to the world's largest Christian populations. Now, in this brilliant sequel, Jenkins takes a much closer look at Christianity in the global South, revealing what it is like, and what it means for the future. The faith of the South, Jenkins finds, is first and foremost a biblical faith. Indeed, in the global South, many Christians identify powerfully with the world portrayed in the New Testament--an agricultural world very much like their own, marked by famine and plague, poverty and exile, until very recently a society of peasants, farmers, and small craftsmen. In the global South, as in the biblical world, belief in spirits and witchcraft are commonplace, and in many places--such as Nigeria, Indonesia, and Sudan--Christians are persecuted just as early Christians were. Thus the Bible speaks to the global South with a vividness and authenticity simply unavailable to most believers in the industrialized North. More important, Jenkins shows that throughout the global South, believers are reading the Bible with fresh eyes, and coming away with new and sometimes startling interpretations. Some of their conclusions are distinctly fundamentalist, but Jenkins finds an intriguing paradox, for they are also finding ideas in the Bible that are socially liberating, especially with respect to women's rights. Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, such Christians are social activists in the forefront of a wide range of liberation movements. It's hard to overstate how interesting, how eye-opening, how frequently surprising (and sometimes disturbing) Jenkins' findings are. Anyone interested in the implications of these trends for the major denominations, for Muslim-Christian conflict, and for global politics will find The New Faces of Christianity provocative and incisive--and indispensable. |
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Página vii
... Nigeria; Cynthia Read, of Oxford University Press; and my colleagues Roger Finke, Gregg Roeber, and Iyunolu and Sylvester Osagie. I also want to acknowledge my debt over the years to the work of two scholars, Lamin Sanneh and Andrew ...
... Nigeria; Cynthia Read, of Oxford University Press; and my colleagues Roger Finke, Gregg Roeber, and Iyunolu and Sylvester Osagie. I also want to acknowledge my debt over the years to the work of two scholars, Lamin Sanneh and Andrew ...
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... Nigerian primate Peter Akinola, the most visible critic of Northern liberals, “I didn't write the Bible. It's part of our Christian heritage. It tells us what to do. If the word of God says homosexuality is an abomination, then so be it ...
... Nigerian primate Peter Akinola, the most visible critic of Northern liberals, “I didn't write the Bible. It's part of our Christian heritage. It tells us what to do. If the word of God says homosexuality is an abomination, then so be it ...
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... Nigerian church leaders identify modern liberal Westerners with the pagan Greeks of old: “[In] spite of their pride in their wisdom (the Greek love of sophia) they had become utterly foolish. The last stage had been reached.”8To adapt ...
... Nigerian church leaders identify modern liberal Westerners with the pagan Greeks of old: “[In] spite of their pride in their wisdom (the Greek love of sophia) they had become utterly foolish. The last stage had been reached.”8To adapt ...
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... Nigerian branch will soon be its largest representative. The Seventh Day Adventist Church also epitomizes these trends. In the 1950s, the church had around a million members, mainly concentrated in the United States. Today, the church ...
... Nigerian branch will soon be its largest representative. The Seventh Day Adventist Church also epitomizes these trends. In the 1950s, the church had around a million members, mainly concentrated in the United States. Today, the church ...
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... Nigeria, Uganda, Korea, and China. As the religion develops, churches will develop a greater range of theological and biblical attitudes, and probably spawn a new liberalism. In some churches, that liberalism will in turn drive new ...
... Nigeria, Uganda, Korea, and China. As the religion develops, churches will develop a greater range of theological and biblical attitudes, and probably spawn a new liberalism. In some churches, that liberalism will in turn drive new ...
Contenido
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3 Old and New | 42 |
4 Poor and Rich | 68 |
5 Good and Evil | 98 |
6 Persecution and Vindication | 128 |
7 Women and Men | 158 |
8 North and South | 178 |
Psalm 91 | 194 |
The Epistle of James | 195 |
Abbreviations | 200 |
Notes | 201 |
Scripture Index | 239 |
Index | 243 |
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The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South Philip Jenkins Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South Philip Jenkins Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South Philip Jenkins Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
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Referencias a este libro
The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion James A Beckford,Jay Demerath Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
Global Christianity: Contested Claims Frans Jozef Servaas Wijsen,Robert J. Schreiter Vista previa limitada - 2007 |