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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity / Edition 1
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- 9781405153768
- Pub. Date:
- 05/23/2016
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- Wiley
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Overview
- Features contributions from renowned scholars of history and religion from around the world
- Addresses the origins and global expansion of Christianity over the course of two millennia
- Covers a wide range of themes relating to Christianity, including women, worship, sacraments, music, visual arts, architecture, and many more
- Explores the development of Christian traditions over the past two centuries across several continents and the rise in secularization
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781405153768 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 05/23/2016 |
Series: | Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 784 |
Product dimensions: | 6.60(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.70(d) |
About the Author
Michael McClymond is Professor of Modern Christianity at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Familiar Stranger: An Introduction to Jesus of Nazareth (2004), editor of The Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America (2007), and co-author of The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (2012).
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ixAbbreviations xxi
1 Introduction 1Lamin Sanneh and Michael J. McClymond
I. Historical Section 19
A. The Roots (50–1750 ce)
2 Jewish and Hellenic Worlds and Christian Origins 21John J. Collins
3 The “Triumph” of Hellenization in Early Christianity 32Wendy Elgersma Helleman
4 Ancient Eastern Christianity: Syria, Persia, Central Asia, and India 43Scott W. Sunquist
5 Christianity and the European Conversions 54Tomás O’Sullivan
6 Byzantium and Islam in the Mediterranean World 67James C. Skedros
7 The Medieval Synthesis: Religion, Society, and Culture 78Joseph P. Huffmann
8 Early Modern Missions and Maritime Expansion 96Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
9 Bibles, Printing, Books, Churches 107Lori Ferrell
10 The Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation 119Jeffrey Klaiber
B. Issues in the Modern Period (1750–2000 ce) 12911 The Legacy of Christendom 131Philip Jenkins
12 Slavery, Antislavery, and Christianity: Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean 142Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
13 Medicine, Agriculture, and Technology in the Missionary Enterprise 153Christopher H. Grundmann
14 Schools and Education in the Missionary Enterprise 166Norman Etherington
15 Conversion, Converts, and National Identity 176J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
16 Church and State Relations in the Colonial Period 190Brian Stanley
17 Ideologies, the Quest for a Just Society, and Christian Responses 200Govert Buijs
18 The Ecumenical Movement: Why Violence, Why Not Peace? 218Jan van Butselaar
19 Vatican II: Renewal, Accommodation, Inculturation 231Peter C. Phan
20 Christian Revival and Renewal Movements 244Michael J. McClymond
II. Thematic Section 263
21 Bible Translation, Culture, and Religion 265Lamin Sanneh
22 Christianity and Interreligious Encounters 282Martin Ganeri
23 Women in Church, State, and Society 302Angelyn Dries
24 Worship, Liturgy, Sacraments 318Geoffrey Wainwright
25 Freedom, Persecution, and the Status of Christian Minorities 330John Witte, Jr. and M. Christian Green
26 Christianity and “Western Classical” Music (1700–2000) 350David Martin
27 Music in the Newer Churches 359Brian Schrag
28 Visual Arts in World Christianity 368Volker Küster
29 Church Architecture Worldwide since 1800 386David R. Bains
30 Charismatic Gifts: Healing, Tongue-Speaking, Prophecy, and Exorcism 399Michael J. McClymond
31 Changing Uses of Old and New Media in World Christianity 419Jolyon Mitchell and Jeremy Kidwell
32 Global Evangelical and Pentecostal Politics 432Paul Freston
III. Christianity Since 1800: An Analysis by Regions and Traditions 449
33 The Middle East and North Africa, I: Egypt and North Africa 451George Berbary
34 The Middle East and North Africa, II: Christians in the Ottoman Empire and in Bilad al-Sham 458Souad Slim
35 African Christianity: Historical and Thematic Horizons 468Lamin Sanneh
36 Christianity in Western Europe 488Simon Coleman
37 Russia and Eastern Europe 500Scott M. Kenworthy
38 Latin America and the Caribbean 511Stephen Dove
39 North America 523Amanda Porterfield
40 South Asia 535Chandra Mallampalli
41 China 546Daniel H. Bays
42 Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia 561J. Nelson Jennings, Yong Kyu Park, and Antolin V. Uy
43 Christianity in Australia and Oceania (ca. 1800–2000) 575Stuart Piggin and Peter Lineham
44 The Historical Development of Christianity in Oceania 588Manfred Ernst and Anna Anisi
45 Roman Catholicism since 1800 605Thomas P. Rausch
46 Orthodoxy and Eastern Christianity 617John A. McGuckin
47 Anglicanism 628Kevin Ward
48 Protestantism 641Alister McGrath
49 Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity 653Allan H. Anderson
50 Indigenous and Vernacular Christianity 664Michèle Miller Sigg, Eva M. Pascal, and Gina A. Zurlo
IV. Expansion and Secularization: A Demographic and Statistical Analysis 683
51 The Transmission of Christian Faith: A Reflection 685Andrew Walls
52 The Demographics and Dynamics of the World Christian Movement 699Todd M. Johnson
53 Christianity in Europe and North America: Decline, Transition, or Pluralization? 719David Martin
Index 733
What People are Saying About This
Sanneh and McClymond have accomplished a major feat, assembling under one cover a comprehensive collection of learned essays on World Christianity’s periods, themes, regions and issues, all addressed by an outstanding panel of experts. Anyone who intends to learn more about this field needs to have this book close at hand.Joel A. Carpenter, Calvin College
I found it a truly impressive volume, amazingly comprehensive, up-to-date, expertly researched and quite readable. A book like this is important in large measure because of the massive geographical and cultural shift of Christianity from Euro-America to the “Southern” or “two thirds” world. By acquainting the reader with the history of Christianity in these regions it alerts us about what to watch for in the future. This collection should be on the easy-to-reach shelf of anyone seriously interested in Christianity in the 21st century and beyond.Harvey Cox, Author of The Future of Faith
McClymond and Sanneh have gone to the ends of the earth and mobilized experts from a plurality of perspectives. The result is a veritable Pentecost in which many voices – occidental and oriental, male and female, senior and up-and-coming academics – harmonize toward an interdisciplinary and intercultural state-of-the-question that is comprehensible to English readers in their own idiom. The next generation of scholarship on global Christianity begins here.Amos Yong, Fuller Theological Seminary
Sanneh and McClymond have produced a splendid book that maps the field of World Christianity. The volume assembles a stellar group of leading and younger scholars. Their essays are just right—learned and readable, long enough for depth, and broad enough to cover major trends. Rare for a reference book, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity deserves to be read cover to cover.Dana L. Robert, Boston University