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Interpreting contemporary Christianity : global processes and local identities / edited by Ogbu U. Kalu ; associate editor, Alaine Low.

Contributor(s): Kalu, Ogbu | Low, Alaine M
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the history of Christian missions: Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub., [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xiv, 365 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780802862426 (pbk. : alk. paper); 080286242X (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): ChristianityDDC classification: 270.8/3 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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