Christian mission : how Christianity became a world religion / / Dana L. Robert

• Autore: Robert Dana Lee
• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xi, 214 p
• Disciplina: 266.009
• Soggetto topico: Missions - History; Church history
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I The Making of a World Religion: Christian Mission through the Ages -- 1 From Christ to Christendom -- From Jerusalem into "All the World" -- The Creation of Catholic Europe, 400-1400 -- 2 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 -- 3 Global Networking for the Nations, 1910- -- The Growth of Global Networks -- International Awakenings -- Awakening Internationalism -- Postcolonial Rejection of Christian Mission -- Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans in Mission -- Part II Themes in Mission History -- 4 The Politics of Missions: Empire, Human Rights, and Land -- Critiques of Missions -- Missionaries and Human Rights -- Missionaries and the Land -- 5 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 -- 6 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 CommunalChristian Identities -- 7 Postscript: Multicultural Missions in Global Context -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Christian mission
• ISBN: 9781444308815; 1444308815; 9781444308808
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814596303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell brief histories of religion.