Global Christianity : contested claims / / edited by Frans Wijsen and Robert Schreiter.
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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| Superior document: | Studies in world Christianity and interreligious relations ; no. 43 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in world Christianity and interreligious relations ;
no. 43. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Notes: | "It is the outcome of an international conference on southern Christianity and its relation to Christianity in the north, held in the conference centre of Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.". |
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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.