Relocating World Christianity

Interdisciplinary Studies in Universal and Local Expressions of the Christian Faith
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34262-0
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Reihe: Theology and Mission in World Christianity

Existing scholarship on World Christianities tends to privilege the local and the regional. In addition to offering an explanation for this tendency, the editors and contributors of this volume also offer a new perspective. An Introduction, Afterword and case-studies argue for the importance of transregional connections in the study of Christianity worldwide. Returning to an older post-war conception of ‘World Christianity’ as an international, ecumenical fellowship, the present volume aims to highlight the universalist, globalising aspirations of many Christians worldwide. While we do not neglect the importance of the local, our aim is to give due weight to the significant transregional networks and exchanges that have constituted Christian communities, both historically and in the present day.

Contributors are: J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Naures Atto, Joel Cabrita, Pedro Feitoza, David C. Kirkpatrick, Chandra Mallampalli, David Maxwell, Dorottya Nagy, Peter C. Phan, Andrew Preston, Joel Robbins, Chloe Starr, Charlotte Walker-Said, Emma Wild-Wood.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cabrita, Joel

Maxwell, David

Wild-Wood, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Contributors

Introduction: Relocating World Christianity
Joel Cabrita and David Maxwell

Connections and Comparisons

1 Historical Perspectives on Christianity Worldwide: Connections, Comparisons and Consciousness
David Maxwell

2 British Missions and the Making of a Brazilian Protestant Public
Pedro Feitoza

3 Parachurch Competition in the Latin American Religious Marketplace: Scriptural Inerrancy and the Reshaping of Global Protestant Evangelicalism
David C. Kirkpatrick

Locating Knowledge

4 Doing Theology in World Christianities: Old Tasks, New Ways
Peter C. Phan

5 World Christianity as a Theological Approach: A Reflection on Central and Eastern Europe
Dorottya Nagy

6 The Orientalist Framework of Christian Conversion in India: Three Venues of ‘Inducement’ from Colonial Times to the Present
Chandra Mallampalli

Place and Belonging in World Christianity

7 Christian Social Movements in Cameroon at the End of Empire: Transnational Solidarities and the Communion of the World Church
Charlotte Walker-Said

8 Maintaining Faith in the Chinese World
Chloë Starr

9 Anthropological Perspectives on World Christianity
Joel Robbins

Migration and Diaspora

10 Defender of the Faith: The United States and World Christianity
Andrew Preston

11 The Death Throes of Indigenous Christians in the Middle East: Assyrians Living Under the Islamic State
Naures Atto

12 Symbolising Charismatic Influence: Contemporary African Pentecostalism and its Global Aspirations
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

Afterword: Relocating Unity and Theology in the Study of World Christianity
Emma Wild-Wood

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joel Cabrita, Ph.D. 2008, University of Cambridge, is a University Lecturer in World Christianities in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. Her first book was a history of the production, use and reception of sacred texts Text and Authority in a South African Church (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

David Maxwell D.Phil. 1994, University of Oxford is Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. With Patrick Harries he co-edited The Spiritual in the Secular. Missionaries and Knowledge about Africa (2012).

Emma Wild-Wood, Ph.D. 2005, University of Edinburgh, directs the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide and teaches in the Faculty of Divinity. She wrote Migration and Christian Identity in Congo (2008) and co-edited with Kevin Ward The East African Revival (2012).