Handbook of global contemporary Christianity : themes and developments in culture, politics, and society /

The Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity: Themes and Developments in Culture, Politics, and Society maps the transformations, as well as the continuities, of the largest of the major religions - engaging with the critical global issues which relate to the faith in a fast changing world. Inte...

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Other Authors: Hunt, Stephen, 1954-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Series: Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion 10.
Brill's Companions to Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy Online I, ISBN: 9789004389434.

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Call Number: BR121.3 .H36 2015

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Stephen Hunt
  • Introduction /
  • Stephen J. Hunt
  • Trends in Global Catholicism: The Refractions and Transformations of a World Church /
  • Jakob Egeris Thorsen
  • Conservative Evangelicalism: Safeguarding Theology and Transforming Society /
  • Candy Gunther Brown
  • Fundamentalist Christianity: From the American Margins to the Global Stage /
  • Todd M. Brenneman
  • The Emergence, Development, and Pluralisation of Global Pentecostalism /
  • Michael Wilkinson
  • Latin American Liberation Theology: The Creation, Development, Contemporary Situation of an On-Going Movement /
  • João Chaves
  • African Christianity: Developments and Trends /
  • Adriaan van Klinken
  • Chinese Christianity: A 'Global-Local' Perspective /
  • Peter Tze Ming Ng
  • Christianity in Latin America: Struggle and Accommodation /
  • Martin Lindhardt and Jakob Egeris Thorsen
  • East European Christianity and the Boundaries of Europe /
  • Bruce R. Berglund
  • Northern Ireland: Religion, Religiosity and Politics in a Changing Society /
  • John Brewer
  • Chinese Protestantism and the Prospect of a Public Religion /
  • Peng Yin
  • Christian Social Engagement in a Globalising Age /
  • Michael Poon
  • Christianity, Resistance and Conflict Resolution in Zimbabwe /
  • Joram Tarusarira
  • In Defense of Religious Rights: Jehovah's Witness Legal Cases around the World /
  • James T. Richardson
  • Indian Christians in Conflict: Dalit Christian Movement in Contemporary India /
  • Kumar M. Ashok and Sunder J. Boopalan
  • Christianity, Gender and Identity among Canadian Youth /
  • Heather Shipley and Pamela Dickey Young
  • Christian Affiliation and Disaffiliation in the United States: Generational and Cultural Change /
  • Michele Dillon
  • Christianity, Ethnicity and Diaspora: African American Christianity /
  • Lawrence Mamiya
  • Masculinities and Identity /
  • Björn Krondorfer
  • Balancing Faith and Desire: Reflections on the Inter-Connection of Christianity, Sexuality and Identity /
  • Michael Keenan
  • Index /
  • Stephen Hunt.