Interpreting Contemporary Christianity Global Processes and Local Identities
- Michigan William B.Eerdmans Publishing Co 2008
- 365p
includes index and biblioraphy
PART I THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL: ROOTING THEORY INTO CONTEXTS 1. Changing Tides: Some Currents in World Christianity at the Opening of the Twenty-First Century Ogbu U. Kalu 2. Globalization, Religion, and Evangelical Christianity: A Sociological Meditation from the Third World Paul Freston 3. Redemption and Progress: Analogies of Protestantism and Popular Culture in the Philippines Brian M. Howell and Anthony dela Fuente 4. African Christianity, Globalization, and Mission: Marginalizing the Center Jehu f. Handles PART II THE GLOBALIZING IMPULSE IN CHRISTIANITY 5. The First Globalization? The Intel-nationalization of the Protestant Missionary Movement Between the World Wars Dana L. Robert 6. The Kingdom of God versus the Church: The Debate at the Conference of the International Missionary Council, Tambaram, 1938 Sebastian C. H. Kim PART III DOMESTICATION, TOOLING, AND REINVENTION: MINISTERIAL FORMATION 7. New Evangelical Universities: Cogs in a World System or Players in a New Game? Joel Carpenter 8. The North China Theological Seminary:Evangelical Theological Education in China in the Early 19005 Kevin Xiyi Yao PART IV LOCAL AGENCY: CHARISMATIC AND PENTECOSTAL TRANSFORMATIONS 9. Consuming Fire: Pandita Ramabai and the Global Pentecostal Impulse Edith L. Blumhofer 10. Pentecostalism and Christian Utopia in China:Jing Dianying and the Jesus Family Movement, 1921-1952 Feiya Tao 11. Local Portraits of Christ in Africa Today: Jesus as Chief/King in Ghanaian Christianity Diane Stinton 12. Gendered Appropriation of Mass Media in Kenyan Christianities: A Comparison of Two Women-Led African Instituted Churches in Kenya Philomena Njeri Mwaura 13. Globalization and African New Religious Movements in Europe Afe Adogame PART V CULTURAL AND SOCIO-POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL PROCESSES 14. Christianity, Ethnicity, and Structural Violence: The Northeast India Case John Parratt