The Changing Face of Christianity Africa, the West, and the World

by Sanneh, Lamin; Carpenter, Joel A.

• ISBN13: 9780195177282
• ISBN10: 0195177282
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Over the past century, Christianity's place and role in the world have changed dramatically. In 1900, 80 percent of the world's Christians lived in Europe and North America. Today, more than 60 percent of the world's Christians live outside of that region.

Author Biography

Lamin Sanneh is Professor of History and D. Willis James Professor of World Christianity at Yale University. He is the author, most recently, of Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel beyond the West (2003). Joel A. Carpenter is Provost and Professor of History at Calvin College. He is the author of Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism (OUP, 1997).

Table of Contents

Contributors,	xiii
Introduction: The Changing Face of Christianity: The Cultural Impetus of a World Religion,	3	(18)
Lamin Sanneh
PART I. Christianity as a Non-Western Religion: Studies from Africa and the African Diaspora
1. Religion Bridge: Translating Secular into Sacred Music: A Study of World Christianity Focusing on the U.S. Virgin Islands,	21	(24)
Patricia Harkins-Pierre
2. Culture, Christianity, and Witchcraft in a West African Context,	45	(18)
Todd M. Vanden Berg
3. Shall They Till with Their Own Hoes? Baptists in Zimbabwe and New Patterns of Interdependence, 1950-2000,	63	(18)
Isaac M.T. Mwase
4. A View of Ghana's New Christianity,	81	(16)
Paul Gifford
5. The Role of Churches in the Peace Process in Africa: The Case of Mozambique Compared,	97	(14)
G. Jan van Butselaar
6. Christian Witness in the Public Sphere: Some Lessons and Residual Challenges from the Recent Political History of Ghana,	111	(24)
Kwame Bediako
PART II. Reflex Impact: World Christianity and the West since 1850
7. Interpreting Karen Christianity: The American Baptist Reaction to Asian Christianity in the Nineteenth Century,	135	(24)
Jay Riley Case
8. Missionary Thinking about Religious Plurality at Tambaram 1938: Hendrik Kraemer and His Critics,	159	(32)
Richard J. Plantinga
9. Contextual Theology: The Last Frontier,	191	(22)
Wilbert R. Shenk
Conclusion: The Current Transformation of Christianity,	213	(12)
Lamin Sanneh
Index,	225