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1 online resource (231 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in world Christianity and interreligious relations ; no. 43 |
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Studies in world Christianity and interreligious relations ; no. 43
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 that time Christianity in Europe and North America will to a large extent consist of Southern-derived immigrant communities. Southern churches will fulfil neither the Liberation Dream nor the Conservative Dream of the North, but will seek their own solutions to their particular problems. Jenkins' boo |
| 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."--Page 4 of cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Jenkins, Philip, 1952- Next christendom -- Criticism, Textual -- Congresses
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Christianity -- Forecasting -- Congresses
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
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Christianity -- Forecasting.
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Christentum
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Globalisierung
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Christendom.
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Internationalisatie.
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Kristendom -- prognoser.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wijsen, Frans Jozef Servaas, 1956-
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Schreiter, Robert J
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| ISBN |
9781435612181 |
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1435612183 |
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9042021926 |
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9789042021921 |
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