Religion on the move! : new dynamics of religious expansion in a globalizing world / edited by Afe Adogame and Shobana Shankar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : exploring new frontiers in global religious dynamics / Afe Adogame, Shobana Shankar -- Part I. Decentering the center : the "Christian West" and postcolonial mission discourse -- Pax et securitas : the problematic missional role of theopolitical rhetoric in the contexts of globalization and terror / Matthew Forrest Lowe -- Ignoring the East : correcting a serious flaw in world Christianity scholarship / Dyron B. Daughrity -- Southern saints and their Northern siblings : Christians crossing boundaries through sister church relationships / Janel Kragt Bakker -- The Church Mission Society and reverse mission : from colonial sending to postcolonial partnership and reception / Rebecca Catto -- Part II. From everywhere : missionaries in comparative and cross-regional perspective -- Indigenization, syncretism and the assumed boundedness of Christianity : a critique / Jonas Adelin Jørgensen -- Syncretism of Christian samurai at the Kumamoto Band in Japan : fulfillment of Confucianism in Christianity / Shuma Iwai -- Exploring the South--South trajectory of global religious flows : the orgins of Ghana's Hinduism / Albert Wuaku -- Door to door da'wa in Africa : dynamics of proselytization in Yan Izala and Tablīghī Jamā'at / Hakano Abdi Wario, Ramzi Ben Amara -- Korean missionaries : preaching the Gospel to "all nations," including the United States / Rebecca Y. Kim -- Religion in motion : a missionary narrative of creativity and survival from the Pentecostal Nigerian diaspora in Italy / Annalisa Butticci --

Part III. Local schisms over globalizing religious discourses : disempowerment, deviance, and inequality -- Mobilizing gender around the globe : the ecumenical movement as a resource for gender equity in Arab Christianity / Heidemarie Winkel -- Towards a global sisterhood : the transnational activities of the federation of Muslim Women Assocations in Nigeria / Olufunke Adeboye -- Localizing Christianity for social change : the subversion of caste in rural South India / Anderson H. M. Jeremiah -- Local revival and global expansion : the case of African Christianity / Mark Shaw -- The shifting map of religious proclivity in Brazil, and how the medic prospect is seemingly unable to deal with it / Marilia Fiorillo -- Dynamics of Islamic religious movements in Nigeria : a case study of Nasru-Lahil-Fatih Society of Nigeria / Musa. O. Adeniyi -- Part IV. Religious islands or innovators : immigrant practices and perspectives -- New dynamics of Christian expansion : boundary crossing in the mission of immigrant churches in the Netherlands / Daniëlle Koning -- Expanding boundaries of recognition and mobility? : otherworldly rhetoric and this-worldly organisation in an African based Charismatic church in Germany / Susanne Kröhnert-Othman -- Migration and the growth of evengelical Christianity : an ethnographic study in Cuernavaca, Mexico / Philip Wingeier-Rayo -- The politicization of religious identity in Sudan, with special reference to oral histories of the Sudanese diaspora in America / Matthew Kustenbauder -- Reverse evangelization : Pentecostal imagination and mobilization of identity in the French migrant context / Damien Mottier -- Local relevance and global appeal : Nigerian female religious leaders in London : case study of Lady Evangelist/Prophetess Lizzy Adedamola a.k.a. Alhaja Jesu, Founder of Gospel Light Evangelical Ministry / Bolaji Bateye.