Global Awakening

by Shaw, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780830838776
• ISBN10: 0830838775
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-01
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

The last century has seen the revolutionary remaking of Christianity into a truly world religion. How did it happen? What triggered the emergence of this new global faith no longer dominated by the West, full of new and vital forms of devotion?Mark Shaw's provocative thesis is that far-flung revivals are at the heart of the global resurgence of Christianity. These were not the quirky folk rituals associated with rural America and nineteenth-century camp meetings that belong more to an age of plows and prairies than of postmodernity and globalization.Rather they were like forces of nature, protean, constantly adjusting their features and ferocity to new times and to new places, speaking Spanish, Portuguese, Yoruba, Korean, Mandarin and Gujarati. They crossed the equator. As they traveled abroad they grabbed hold of missionaries, Bible translations, national evangelists, globalization and glossolalia and turned them into a religious revolution.In this engaging book we read the stories of Joseph Babalola and the Aladura Revival in Africa, of Kil Sun-Ju and the great Korean revival of 1907, of Paulo Borges Jr. and explosion of neo-Pentecostalism in Brazil, and of V. S. Azariah and the mass conversions of the Dalit people in India. As Shaw paints portraits of these and many more, his gallery fills, and we begin to see beyond isolated pictures to the sweeping landscape that we didn't realize was before our eyes all the time.

Author Biography

Mark Shaw is the director of the world Christianity program at Africa International University in Nairobi, Kenya. He has studied world Christianity at the University of Edinburgh (M. Th.) and the history of Christianity at Westminster Theological Seminary (Th. D.) Mark is the author of a number of books, including 10 Great Ideas from Church History (Inter Varsity Press) and The Kingdom of God in Africa a Short History of Africa Christianity (Baker). He and his wife, Lois, currently reside in Kenya where they have lived and worked for twenty-five years.

Table of Contents

Beyond the sawdust trail The Dynamics of Global Revival	p. 9
Above the 38th parallel Kil Sun Ju and the Korean Revival of 1907	p. 33
The resurrection man Joseph Babalola and the Aladura Revival of 1930	p. 55
Waking the dead V. S. Azariah and the Dornakal Revival in India	p. 67
Nothing but the blood William Nagenda and the East African Revival in Uganda	p. 91
Born Again Billy Graham and the Revival of American Evangelicalism	p. 113
Salt of the earth Paulo Borges Jr. and Revival in Brazil	p. 135
New Jerusalems Mensa Otafril, African Pentecostalism and Reverse Mission	p. 159
Taming the dragon Zhang Rongliang and the Chinese House Churches	p. 177
Rethinking revival Lessons from the Story of World Christianity	p. 197
Index	p. 215
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