Research Catalog

Title

Global Christianity : contested claims / edited by Frans Wijsen and Robert Schreiter.

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Wijsen, Frans Jozef Servaas, 1956-
• Schreiter, Robert J.

Description

231 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"In 2002 Philip Jenkins wrote The Next Christendom. In the United States of America, the prospect of a more biblical Christianity caused reactions of alarm in liberal circles. In contrast conservatives were delighted by the same prospect. In Europe the book landed in the middle of the debate on Europe as an exceptional case. It was detested by those who stick to the theory of ongoing and irreversible secularisation and welcomed by those who see a resurgence of religion, also in Europe. In the present volume, scholars of religion and theologians assess the global trends in World Christianity as described in Philip Jenkinsi book. It is the outcome of an international conference on Southern Christianity and its relation to Christianity in the North, held in the Conference Centre of Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Studies in world Christianity and interreligious relations ; no. 43

Uniform Title

Studies in world Christianity and interreligious relations ; no. 43.

Subject

• Jenkins, Philip, 1952- > Criticism, textual > Congresses
• Jenkins, Philip, 1952- > Congresses
• Christianity > Forecasting > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "It is the outcome of an international conference on southern Christianity and its relation to Christianity in the north, held in the conference centre of Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands."--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Frans Wijsen -- Christianity moves South / Philip Jenkins -- Global Christianity, new empire, and old Europe / Werner Ustorf -- Christian enculturation in the two-thirds world / Ben Knighton -- The future shape of Christianity from an Asian perspective / Sebastian C.H. Kim -- Jenkins' The Next Christendom and Europe / Frans J. Verstraelen -- Challenges to the next Christendom: Islam in Africa / John Chesworth -- Realistic perspectives for the Christian diaspora of Asia / Karel Steenbrink -- Religion in the Caribbean: creation by Creolisation / Joop Vernooij -- Pentecostal conversion careers in Latin America / Henri Gooren -- Theologies of Anowa's daughters: an African women's discourse / Martha Frederiks -- Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong / Gemma Cruz-Chia -- Epilogue / Robert Schreiter.

ISBN

• 9789042021921 (pbk.)
• 9042021926 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 163094804
• SCSB-11507720

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library