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Global Christianity : contested claims /

In 2002 Philip Jenkins wrote The Next Christendom . Over the past half century the centre of gravity of the Christian world has moved decisively to the global South, says Jenkins. Within a few decades European and Euro-American Christians will have become a small fragment of world Christianity. By t...

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Other Authors: Wijsen, Frans Jozef Servaas, 1956-, Schreiter, Robert J.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.

Series: Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations 43.
Rodopi Religion, Theology and Philosophy Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357938.

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Jenkins, Philip, > 1952- > Next christendom > Criticism, Textual > Congresses.
Christianity > Forecasting > Congresses.

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Call Number: BR121.3 .G65 2007eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction /
  • Frans Wijsen
  • Christianity Moves South /
  • Philip Jenkins
  • Global Christianity, New Empire, and Old Europe /
  • Werner Ustorf
  • Christian Enculturation in the Two-Thirds World /
  • Ben Knighton
  • The Future Shape of Christianity from an Asian Perspective /
  • Sebastian C.H. Kim
  • Jenkins' The Next Christendom and Europe /
  • Frans J. Verstraelen
  • Challenges to the Next Christendom: Islam in Africa /
  • John Chesworth
  • Realistic Perspectives for the Christian Diaspora of Asia /
  • Karel Steenbrink
  • Religion in the Caribbean: Creation by Creolisation /
  • Joop Vernooij
  • Pentecostal Conversion Careers in Latin America /
  • Henri Gooren
  • Theologies of Anowa's Daughters: An African women's discourse /
  • Martha Frederiks
  • Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong /
  • Gemma Cruz-Chia
  • Epilogue /
  • Robert Schreiter
  • Contributors
  • Index of names.