Interpreting contemporary Christianity : global processes and local identities / edited by Ogbu U. Kalu ; associate editor, Alaine Low.
| Other author | Kalu, Ogbu. |
| Other author | Low, Alaine M. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., ©2008. |
| Description | xiv, 365 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in the history of Christian missions Studies in the history of Christian missions. ^A441714 |
| Contents | Changing tides : some currents in world Christianity at the opening of the twenty-first century / Ogbu U. Kalu -- Globalization, religion, and evangelical Christianity : a sociological meditation from the Third World / Paul Freston -- Redemption and progress : analogies of Protestantism and popular culture in the Philippines / Brian M. Howell and Anthony dela Fuente -- African Christianity, globalization, and mission : marginalizing the center / Jehu J. Hanciles -- The first globalization? : the internationalization of the Protestant missionary movement between the world wars / Dana L. Robert -- The kingdom of God versus the church : the debate at the Conference of the International Missionary Council, Tambaram, 1938 / Sebastian C.H. Kim -- New evangelical universities : cogs in a world system or players in a new game? / Joel Carpenter -- The North China Theological Seminary : evangelical theological education in China in the early 1900s / Kevin Xiyi Yao -- Consuming fire : Pandita Ramabai and the global Pentecostal impulse / Edith L. Blumhofer -- Pentecostalism and Christian utopia in China : Jing Dianying and the Jesus Family Movement, 1921-1952 / Feiya Tao -- Local portraits of Christ in Africa today : Jesus as chief/king in Ghanaian Christianity / Diane Stinton -- Gendered appropriation of mass media in Kenyan Christianities : a comparison of two women-led African Instituted Churches in Kenya / Philomena Njeri Mwaura -- Globalization and African New Religious Movements in Europe / Afe Adogame -- Christianity, ethnicity, and structural violence : the northeast India case / John Parratt. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-360) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007040634 |
| ISBN | 9780802862426 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 080286242X (pbk. : alk. paper) |