The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global SouthOxford University Press, 1 sept. 2006 - 272 pages 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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... world in which Christian numbers are strongly concentrated in the global South, where the clergy and scholars of the ... theologies.” As Joel Carpenter observes, “Christian theology eventually reflects the most compelling issues from the ...
... world in which Christian numbers are strongly concentrated in the global South, where the clergy and scholars of the ... theologies.” As Joel Carpenter observes, “Christian theology eventually reflects the most compelling issues from the ...
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... world issues of poverty and debt, famine and urban crisis, racial and gender ... theology because they experienced such vigorous controversies with ... global North and South differ because of the main threats they perceive in their ...
... world issues of poverty and debt, famine and urban crisis, racial and gender ... theology because they experienced such vigorous controversies with ... global North and South differ because of the main threats they perceive in their ...
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... world. Cultures that readily identify with biblical worldviews find it ... global South clergy express their faith that God will intervene to reward or punish ... theologies and interpretations. The North-South difference is rather one of ...
... world. Cultures that readily identify with biblical worldviews find it ... global South clergy express their faith that God will intervene to reward or punish ... theologies and interpretations. The North-South difference is rather one of ...
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... global South traditions.14 Sugirtharajah, himself a distinguished postcolonial scholar, writes scathingly of the appropriation of “third world theologies” by Western academics, who overemphasize those currents they find attractive ...
... global South traditions.14 Sugirtharajah, himself a distinguished postcolonial scholar, writes scathingly of the appropriation of “third world theologies” by Western academics, who overemphasize those currents they find attractive ...
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... theologies. They do not pretend that their offerings represent any kind of sample of Christian opinion in global South nations, nor should they be taken as such.16 Issues of unconscious bias even surface in what seems to be the most ...
... theologies. They do not pretend that their offerings represent any kind of sample of Christian opinion in global South nations, nor should they be taken as such.16 Issues of unconscious bias even surface in what seems to be the most ...
Table des matières
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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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Global Christianity: Contested Claims Frans Jozef Servaas Wijsen,Robert J. Schreiter Aperçu limité - 2007 |