Next Christendom The Coming of Global Christianity

Name: Next Christendom The Coming of Global Christianity
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ISBN: 9780195168914

ISBN-10: 0195168917

ISBN-13: 9780195168914

Edition: 2004

Authors: Philip Jenkins

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By the year 2,050 only one Christian in five will be non-Latino and white, and the center of gravity of the Christian world will have shifted firmly to the Southern Hemisphere. The Next Christendom is the first book to take the full measure of the changing face of the Christian faith. Philip Jenkins shows that the churches that have grown most rapidly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are often more morally conservative and apocalyptic than their northern counterparts. Mysticism, puritanism, faith-healing, exorcism, and dream-visions--concepts which more liberal western churches have traded in for progressive political and social concerns--are basic to these newer churches. And the effects…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/11/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Philip Jenkins is professor of history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University. His many books include Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Social Crisis.



List of Tables


Acknowledgments


Maps



The Christian Revolution



Disciples of All Nations



Missionaries and Prophets



Standing Alone



The Rise of the New Christianity



Coming to Terms



God and the World



The Next Crusade



Coming Home



Seeing Christianity Again for the First Time


Notes


Index