The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global SouthOxford University Press, 1 wrz 2006 - 272 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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... society; but we must also take account of the means by which the Bible has arrived in these Christian cultures. The Bible is still a relatively new book in most of Africa and Asia, where Christian communities are still in the initial ...
... society; but we must also take account of the means by which the Bible has arrived in these Christian cultures. The Bible is still a relatively new book in most of Africa and Asia, where Christian communities are still in the initial ...
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... Society, while the more liberal South African province reflects the influence of its Anglo-Catholic founders, who ... societies. African and Asian believers created their own apocalyptic, messianic, or healing movements, which restated ...
... Society, while the more liberal South African province reflects the influence of its Anglo-Catholic founders, who ... societies. African and Asian believers created their own apocalyptic, messianic, or healing movements, which restated ...
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... societies. In some cases, the Christian scripture arrived in nations in which the idea of sacred writing was already familiar, and so was an exalted view of the power of text, so that the Bible effectively took the place of older holy ...
... societies. In some cases, the Christian scripture arrived in nations in which the idea of sacred writing was already familiar, and so was an exalted view of the power of text, so that the Bible effectively took the place of older holy ...
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... societies in which literacy was restricted to only a tiny elite. In modern India, Christianity has enjoyed its greatest ... society still rooted in oral culture, with an ambiguous attitude toward the written text. Though documents carry ...
... societies in which literacy was restricted to only a tiny elite. In modern India, Christianity has enjoyed its greatest ... society still rooted in oral culture, with an ambiguous attitude toward the written text. Though documents carry ...
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... society, the ability to read the Bible becomes an act of selfassertion, confidence, and potentially resistance. Speak in Our Tongues Also recalling the older European experience, the Word arrives in familiar speech. While Hebrew or ...
... society, the ability to read the Bible becomes an act of selfassertion, confidence, and potentially resistance. Speak in Our Tongues Also recalling the older European experience, the Word arrives in familiar speech. While Hebrew or ...
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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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