Research Catalog

Title

The changing face of Christianity : Africa, the West, and the world / edited by Lamin Sanneh and Joel A. Carpenter.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Sanneh, Lamin O.
• Carpenter, Joel A.

Description

xiv, 233 pages : maps; 25 cm

Subjects

• Church history > 20th century
• Church history > 21st century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : the changing face of Christianity : the cultural impetus of a world religion / Lamin Sanneh -- 1. Religion bridge : translating secular into sacred music : a study of world Christianity focusing on the U.S. Virgin Islands / Patricia Harkins-Pierre -- 2. Culture, Christianity, and witchcraft in a West African context / Todd M. Vanden Berg -- 3. Shall they till with their own hoes? : Baptists in Zimbabwe and new patterns of interdependence, 1950-2000 / Isaac M. T. Mwase -- 4. A view of Ghana's new Christianity / Paul Gifford -- 5. The role of churches in the peace process in Africa : the case of Mozambique compared / G. Jan van Butselaar -- 6. Christian witness in the public sphere : some lessons and residual challenges from the recent political history of Ghana / Kwame Bediako -- 7. Interpreting Karen Christianity : the American Baptist reaction to Asian Christianity in the nineteenth century / Jay Riley Case -- 8. Missionary thinking about religiuos plurality at Tambaram 1938 : Hendrik Kraemer and his critics / Richard J. Plantinga -- 9. Contextual theology : the last frontier / Wilbert R. Shenk -- Conclusion : the current transformation of Christianity / Lamin Sanneh.

ISBN

• 0195177274 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0195177282 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2004008859
• R4-487101

OCLC

• OCM55008807
• SCSB-5162442

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Columbia University Libraries