The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South - Image 1

Price loading...

Oxford University Press The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South

Name: The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South
Brand: Oxford University Press

World History

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Christianity is growing so rapidly in the global South that soon Africa may be home to the world's largest Christian population. But what sort of Christianity will that be? In Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Christians live in settings very close to the social, cultural, and intellectual milieu in which the New Testament itself was written. For this reason, Philip Jenkins argues, they read the Scriptures with a freshness and authenticity impossible in the prosperous societies of North America and Europe. At first sight, the rising Christianity of the global South appears fundamentalist and deeply conservative. But at the same time these new Christians draw conclusions from scripture that are innovative, creative, and socially liberating, in their impact on social structures and gender relations. In fact, this Biblical enthusiasm is embraced by exactly those groups often portrayed as the victims of reactionary religion, particularly women, and a Biblically-rooted Christian feminism enjoys growing influence. Their fundamentalism does not deny or defy modernity, instead the Bible supplies a tool to cope with modernity, and to assist the most marginalized members of society. This, says Jenkins, is precisely the reason for Christianity's explosive growth. Many Southern churches take very seriously the supernatural world-view that pervades the Christian scriptures, with the recurrent themes of demons, possession, exorcism and spiritual healing. Yet readings that appear intellectually reactionary encourage believers to engage in far-reaching social activism. Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, churches seek both deliverance and liberation - deliverance from evil supernatural forces, and liberation from oppressive worldly structures. Such examples challenge our conventional division of religion into conservative and liberal forms, and make nonsense of our concepts of "fundamentalism."

Key Features

New

Mint Condition

Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon

Guaranteed packaging

No quibbles returns

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0195300653
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 26 October 2006
Listed Since: 06 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Emerging Theologies from the Global South

Emerging Theologies from the Global South

Routledge Christianity in the Modern World - Academic Book

The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought (Oxford Companions)

Religious Identities and the Global South: Porous Borders and Novel Paths (New Approaches to Religion and Power)

The Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism (Oxford Handbooks)

World Christianity (Critical Concepts in Religious Studies)

Fundamentalism and Charismatic Movements (Critical Concepts in Religious Studies)

Religion in Motion: Rethinking Religion, Knowledge and Discourse in a Globalizing World

Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South: 2 Volumes

GLOBAL PENTECOSTALISM AND CHARISMATIC HEALING

Christian History: An Introduction

Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South

Christianity: An Introduction

Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion: 25 (Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion)

Queer Ministers’ Voices from the Global South: "A Burning Fire in My Bones" (Gender, Theology and Spirituality)

Christianity and Creation: The Essence of the Christian Faith and Its Future Among Religions

Atlas of Global Christianity: 1910-2010

The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity (Oxford Handbooks)

Global Pentecostalism: Encounters with Other Religious Traditions (Library of Modern Religion): v. 5

The Bible and Sociological Contours: Some African Perspectives. Festschrift for Professor Halvor Moxnes: 26 (Bible and Theology in Africa)

Nigerian Pentecostalism and Development: Spirit, Power, and Transformation (Routledge Research in Religion and Development)

Christianities in Migration: The Global Perspective (Christianities of the World)

Routledge Identity Crises and Indigenous Religious Traditions