The changing face of Christianity : Africa, the West, and the world / edited by Lamin Sanneh and Joel A. Carpenter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: xiv, 233 p. : maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195177274 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0195177282 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.8 22 Sa58c
LOC classification:
  • BR481 .C47 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: the changing face of world Christianity : the cultural impetus of a world religion / Lamin Sanneh -- I. Christianity as a non-Western religion: studies from Africa and the African diaspora. Religion bridge : translating secular into sacred music : a study of world Christianity focusing on the U.S. Virgin Islands / Patricia Harkins-Pierre -- Culture, Christianity, and witchcraft in a West African context / Todd M. Vanden Berg -- Shall they till with their own hoes? : Baptists in Zimbabwe and new patterns of interdependence, 1950-2000 / Isaac M.T. Mwase -- A view of Ghana's new Christianity / Paul Gifford-- The role of churches in the peace process in Africa : the case of Mozambique compared / Jan van Butselaar -- Christian witness in the public sphere : some lessons and residual challenges from the recent political history of Ghana / Kwame Bediako -- II. Reflex impact: world Christianity and the West since 1850. Interpreting Karen Christianity : the American Baptist reaction to Asian Christianity in the nineteenth century / Jay Riley Case -- Missionary thinking about religious plurality at Tambaram 1938 : Hendrik Kraemer and his critics / Richard J. Plantinga-- Contextual theology : the last frontier / Wilbert R. Shenk -- Conclusion : the current transformation of Christianity / Lamin Sanneh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the changing face of world Christianity : the cultural impetus of a world religion / Lamin Sanneh -- I. Christianity as a non-Western religion: studies from Africa and the African diaspora. Religion bridge : translating secular into sacred music : a study of world Christianity focusing on the U.S. Virgin Islands / Patricia Harkins-Pierre -- Culture, Christianity, and witchcraft in a West African context / Todd M. Vanden Berg -- Shall they till with their own hoes? : Baptists in Zimbabwe and new patterns of interdependence, 1950-2000 / Isaac M.T. Mwase -- A view of Ghana's new Christianity / Paul Gifford-- The role of churches in the peace process in Africa : the case of Mozambique compared / Jan van Butselaar -- Christian witness in the public sphere : some lessons and residual challenges from the recent political history of Ghana / Kwame Bediako -- II. Reflex impact: world Christianity and the West since 1850. Interpreting Karen Christianity : the American Baptist reaction to Asian Christianity in the nineteenth century / Jay Riley Case -- Missionary thinking about religious plurality at Tambaram 1938 : Hendrik Kraemer and his critics / Richard J. Plantinga-- Contextual theology : the last frontier / Wilbert R. Shenk -- Conclusion : the current transformation of Christianity / Lamin Sanneh.

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