Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion

by Dana L. Robert (Boston University, USA )

• ISBN13: 9781444308815
• ISBN10: 1444308815
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Exploring how Christianity became a world religion, this brief history examines Christian missions and their relationship to the current globalization of Christianity. A short and enlightening history of Christian missions: a phenomenon that many say reflects the single most important intercultural movement over a sustained period of human history Offers a thematic overview that takes into account the political, cultural, social, and theological issues Discusses the significance of missions to the globalization of Christianity, and broadens our understanding of Christianity as a multicultural world religion Helps Western audiences understand the meaning of mission as a historical process Contains several new maps that illustrate demographic shifts in world Christianity

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Making of a World Religion: Christian Mission through the Ages:

From Christ to Christendom

From Jerusalem into "All the World

The Creation of Catholic Europe, 400-1400

Vernaculars and Volunteers, 1450

Bible Translation and the Roots of Modern Missions

The Revitalization of Catholic Missions

The Beginnings of Protestant Missions

Voluntarism and Mission

Protestant Missionary Activities in the Nineteenth Century

Global Networking for the Nations, 1910-

The Growth of Global Networks

International Awakenings

Awakening Internationalism

Post-Colonial Rejection of Christian Mission

Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans in Mission

Themes in Mission History:

The Politics of Missions: Empire, Human Rights, and Land

Critiques of Missions

Missionaries and Human Rights

Missionaries and the Land

Missions and Ecology

Women in World Mission: Purity, Motherhood, and Women's Well-Being

Women as Missionaries

Purity and Gender Neutrality

The Mission of Motherhood

Women's Well-Being and Social Change

Conversion and Christian Community: The Missionary from St. Patrick to Bernard Mizeki

Who Was St. Patrick?

Bernard Mizeki, "Apostle to the Shona"

Missionaries and the Formation of Communal Christian Identities

Postscript: Multicultural Missions in Global Context

Bibliography

Index

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