Global Christianity [[electronic resource] ] : contested claims / / edited by Frans Wijsen and Robert Schreiter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452070003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007
• ISBN: 94-012-0432-2; 1-4356-1218-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Collana: Studies in world Christianity and interreligious relations ; ; no. 43
• Altri autori (Persone): SchreiterRobert J; WijsenFrans Jozef Servaas <1956->
• Disciplina: 270.83
• Soggetti: Christianity - Forecasting; Church membership; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "It is the outcome of an international conference on southern Christianity and its relation to Christianity in the north, held in the conference centre of Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.".
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Frans Wijsen -- Christianity Moves South / Philip Jenkins -- Global Christianity, New Empire, and Old Europe / Werner Ustorf -- Christian Enculturation in the Two-Thirds World / Ben Knighton -- The Future Shape of Christianity from an Asian Perspective / Sebastian C.H. Kim -- Jenkins’ The Next Christendom and Europe / Frans J. Verstraelen -- Challenges to the Next Christendom: Islam in Africa / John Chesworth -- Realistic Perspectives for the Christian Diaspora of Asia / Karel Steenbrink -- Religion in the Caribbean: Creation by Creolisation / Joop Vernooij -- Pentecostal Conversion Careers in Latin America / Henri Gooren -- Theologies of Anowa’s Daughters: An African women’s discourse / Martha Frederiks -- Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong / Gemma Cruz-Chia -- Epilogue / Robert Schreiter -- Contributors -- Index of names.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 2002 Philip Jenkins wrote The Next Christendom . Over the past half century the centre of gravity of the Christian world has moved decisively to the global South, says Jenkins. Within a few decades ; European and Euro-American Christians will have become a small fragment of world Christianity. By that time Christianity in Europe and North America will to a large extent consist of Southern-derived immigrant communities. Southern churches will fulfil neither the Liberation Dream nor the Conservative Dream of the North, but will seek their own solutions to their particular problems. Jenkins’ book evoked strong reactions, a bit to his own surprise, as the book contained little new. In the United States of America, the prospect of a more biblical Christianity caused reactions of alarm in liberal circles. In contrast, conservatives were delighted by the same prospect. In Europe the book landed in the middle of the debate on Europe as an exceptional case. It was detested by those who stick to the theory of ongoing and irreversible secularisation and welcomed by those who see a resurgence of religion, also in Europe. In the present volume, scholars of religion and theologians assess the global trends in World Christianity as described in Philip Jenkins’ book. It is the outcome of an international conference on Southern Christianity and its relation to Christianity in the North, held in the Conference Centre of Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Barrio-logos : space and place in urban Chicano literature and culture / / Raul Homero Villa

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828234303321
• Autore: Villa Raul
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Austin, TX, : University of Texas Press, 2000
• ISBN: 0-292-79892-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Collana: History, culture, and society series
• Disciplina: 810.9/86872
• Soggetti: American literature - Mexican American authors - History and criticism; City and town life in literature; Hispanic American neighborhoods in literature; Local color in literature; Mexican Americans in literature; Mexican Americans - Intellectual life; Setting (Literature); Space and time in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction. Spatial Practice and Place-Consciousness in Chicano Urban Culture -- ONE. Creative Destruction: Founding Anglo Los Angeles on the Ruins of El Pueblo -- TWO. From Military-Industrial Complex to Urban-Industrial Complex: Promoting and Protesting the Supercity -- THREE. ‘‘Phantoms in Urban Exile’’: Critical Soundings from Los Angeles’ Expressway Generation -- FOUR. Art against Social Death: Symbolic and Material Spaces of Chicano Cultural Re-creation -- FIVE. Between Nationalism and Women’s Standpoint: Lorna Dee Cervantes’ Freeway Poems -- EPILOGUE. Return to the Source -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Struggles over space and resistance to geographic displacement gave birth to much of Chicano history and culture. In this pathfinding book, Raúl Villa explores how California Chicano/a activists, journalists, writers, artists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and ; massive freeway development and to create and defend a sense of Chicano place-identity. Villa opens with a historical overview that shows how Chicano communities and culture have grown in response to conflicts over space ever since the United States' annexation of Mexican territory in the 1840s. Then, turning to the work of contemporary members of the Chicano intelligentsia such as Helena Maria Viramontes, Ron Arias, and Lorna Dee Cervantes, Villa demonstrates how their expressive practices re-imagine and re-create the dominant urban space as a community enabling place. In doing so, he illuminates the endless interplay in which cultural texts and practices are shaped by and act upon their social and political contexts.