Studies in World Christianity – serie
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15 produkter
China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture
Häftad, 2014
689 kr
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Christian missionaries in China have been viewed as agents of Western imperialist values. Yang Huilin, leading scholar of Sino-Christian studies, has dedicated himself to re-evaluating the history of Christianity in China and sifting through intellectual and religious results of missionary efforts …
Converts to Civil Society
Christianity and Political Culture in Contemporary Hong Kong
Inbunden, 2014
584 kr
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Lida V. Nedilsky captures the public ramifications of a personal, Christian faith at the time of Hong Kong's pivotal political turmoil. From 1997 to 2008, in the much-anticipated reintegration of Hong Kong into Chinese sovereignty, she conducted detailed interviews of more than fifty Hong Kong …
Christianity Remade
The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches
Av Paul Joshua, Joel A. Carpenter
Inbunden, 2022
584 kr
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If there is one question that haunts Indian Christians, it is this: "What does it mean to be Indian and Christian?" This matter of identity presents a unique challenge, especially today, in the face of a Hindu nationalist challenge insisting that to be truly Indian, one must be Hindu. Christianity …
Evangelical Movement in Ethiopia
Resistance and Resilience
Häftad, 2017
592 kr
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In this sweeping history, Tibebe Eshete presents a new view of Ethiopian Christianity. Synthesizing existing scholarship with original interviews and archival research, he demonstrates that the vernacular nature of the Ethiopian church played a critical role in the development of a state church. He …
Christianity and Catastrophe in South Sudan
Civil War, Migration, and the Rise of Dinka Anglicanism
Inbunden, 2018
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Amidst a catastrophic civil war that began in 1983 and ended in 2005, many Dinka people in Sudan repudiated their inherited religious beliefs and embraced a vibrant Anglican faith. Christianity and Catastrophe in South Sudan chronicles the emergence of this grassroots religious movement, arguing …
John Song
Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man
Inbunden, 2020
620 kr
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Dubbed the ""Billy Sunday of China"" for the staggering number of people he led to Christ, John Song has captured the imagination of generations of readers. His story, as it became popular in the West, possessed memorable, if not necessarily true, elements: Song was converted while he studied in …
Spirit of Revitalization
Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya
Inbunden, 2020
637 kr
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Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, Africa has generated unique expressions of Christianity that have, in their rapid development, overtaken older forms of Christianity represented by historic missionary efforts. Similarly, African Christianity has largely displayed its rootedness in its …
West African Revival
Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918-1929
Av Adam Mohr
Inbunden, 2023
689 kr
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In eleven short years, from 1918 to 1929, Faith Tabernacle Congregation, a small divine healing church in Philadelphia, spread over the Guinea Coast, garnering over 250 branches and nearly 11,000 members without ever sending missionaries from the United States. Communications were made solely …
Expect Great Things, Attempt Great Things
William Carey and Adoniram Judson, Missionary Pioneers
Av Allen Yeh, Chris Chun
Inbunden, 2013
397 kr
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Missionary Christianity and Local Religion
American Evangelicalism in North India, 1836-1870
Inbunden, 2017
1077 kr
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The first Christian communities were established among the population of Hindi- and Urdu-speaking North India during the middle of the nineteenth century. The evangelical North American Presbyterian and Methodist missionaries who arrived in what were considered the Hindu heartlands discovered a …
Making of Korean Christianity
Protestant Encounters with Korean Religions, 1876-1915
Häftad, 2015
849 kr
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A major catalyst for the growth of Korean Christianity occurred at the turn of the twentieth century when Western missionaries encountered the religious landscape of Korea. These first-generation missionaries have been framed as destroyers of Korean religion and culture. Yet, as Sung-Deuk Oak shows …
Evangelical Christian Baptists of Georgia
The History and Transformation of a Free Church Tradition
Inbunden, 2015
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Malkhaz Songulashvili, former Archbishop of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia (EBCG), provides a pioneering, exacting, and sweeping history of Georgian Baptists. Utilizing archival sources in Georgian, Russian, German, and English - translating many of these crucial documents for the first …
Global Christianity and the Black Atlantic
Tuskegee, Colonialism, and the Shaping of African Industrial Education
Inbunden, 2017
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Many Europeans saw Africa's colonization as an exhibition of European racial ascendancy. African Christians saw Africa's subjugation as a demonstration of European technological superiority. If the latter was the case, then the path to Africa's liberation ran through the development of a …
Rise of Pentecostalism in Modern El Salvador
From the Blood of the Martyrs to the Baptism of the Spirit
Inbunden, 2017
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El Salvador has experienced a dramatic religious transformation over the past half-century. In what was once an almost exclusively Catholic nation, more than 35 percent of the people are now evangelical Protestants, mostly identified as charismatic or Pentecostal. While having some roots in …
Healing and Power in Ghana
Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity
Inbunden, 2020
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In nineteenth-century Ghana, regional warfare rooted in profound social and economic transformations led thousands of displaced people to seek refuge in the small mountain kingdom of Akuapem. There they encountered missionaries from Germany whose message of sin and forgiveness struck many of these …
