Religion on the move! : new dynamics of religious expansion in a globalizing world /

How do religions spread in today's world, where Christian missions have lost influence and modern nations have replaced colonial empires? Religions on the Move is a collection of essays charting new religious expansions. Contemporary evangelists may be Nigerian, Korean, Brazilian or Congolese,...

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Other Authors: Adogame, Afeosemime U. 1964-, Shankar, Shobana.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: International Studies in Religion and Society 15.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248748.

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Call Number: BL637 .R45 2013eb

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Exploring New Frontiers in Global Religious Dynamics /
  • Afe Adogame and Shobana Shankar
  • 1 Pax et Securitas: The Problematic Missional Role of Theopolitical Rhetoric in the Contexts of Globalization and Terror /
  • Matthew Forrest Lowe
  • 2 Ignoring the East: Correcting a Serious Flaw in World Christianity Scholarship /
  • Dyron B. Daughrity
  • 3 Southern Saints and their Northern Siblings: Christians Crossing Boundaries through Sister Church Relationships /
  • Janel Kragt Bakker
  • 4 The Church Mission Society and Reverse Mission: From Colonial Sending to Postcolonial Partnership and Reception /
  • Rebecca Catto
  • 5 Indigenization, Syncretism and the Assumed Boundedness of Christianity: A Critique /
  • Jonas Adelin Jørgensen
  • 6 Syncretism of Christian samurai at the Kumamoto Band in Japan: Fulfillment of Confucianism in Christianity /
  • Shuma Iwai
  • 7 Exploring the South-South Trajectory of Global Religious Flows: The Origins of Ghana's Hinduism /
  • Albert Wuaku
  • 8 Door to Door Daʿwa in Africa: Dynamics of Proselytization in Yan Izala and Tablīghī Jamāʿat /
  • Hakano Abdi Wario and Ramzi Ben Amara
  • 9 Korean Missionaries: Preaching the Gospel to "All Nations," including the United States /
  • Rebecca Y. Kim
  • 10 Religion in Motion: A Missionary Narrative of Creativity and Survival from the Pentecostal Nigerian Diaspora in Italy /
  • Annalisa Butticci
  • 11 Mobilizing Gender around the Globe: The Ecumenical Movement as a Resource for gender Equity in Arab Christianity /
  • Heidemarie Winkel
  • 12 Towards a Global Sisterhood: The Transnational Activities of the Federation of Muslim Women's Associations in Nigeria /
  • Olufunke Adeboye
  • 13 Localizing Christianity for Social Change: The Subversion of Caste in Rural South India /
  • Anderson H. M. Jeremiah
  • 14 Local Revival and Global Expansion: The Case of African Christianity /
  • Mark Shaw
  • 15 The Shifting Map of Religious Proclivity in Brazil, and How the Media Prospect is Seemingly Unable to Deal with It /
  • Marilia Fiorillo
  • 16 Dynamics of Islamic Religious Movements in Nigeria: A Case Study of Nasru-Lahil-Fatih Society of Nigeria /
  • Musa. O. Adeniyi
  • 17 New Dynamics of Christian Expansion: Boundary Crossing in the Mission of Immigrant Churches in the Netherlands /
  • Daniëlle Koning
  • 18 Expanding Boundaries of Recognition and Mobility?-Otherworldly Rhetoric and This-worldly Organisation in an African based Charismatic Church in Germany /
  • Susanne Kröhnert-Othman
  • 19 Migration and the Growth of Evangelical Christianity: An Ethnographic Study in Cuernavaca, Mexico /
  • Philip Wingeier-Rayo
  • 20 The Politicization of Religious Identity in Sudan, with Special Reference to Oral Histories of the Sudanese Diaspora in America /
  • Matthew Kustenbauder
  • 21 Reverse Evangelization: Pentecostal Imagination and Mobilization of Identity in the French Migrant Context /
  • Damien Mottier
  • 22 Local Relevance and Global Appeal: Nigerian Female Religious Leaders in London: Case Study of Lady Evangelist/ Prophetess Lizzy Adedamola a. k. a. Alhaja Jesu, Founder of Gospel Light Evangelical Ministry /
  • Bolaji Bateye
  • Contributors
  • Index.