How to study global Christianity : a short guide for students / / Jason Bruner |
Autore | Bruner Jason |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (150 pages) |
Disciplina | 230 |
Soggetto topico |
Christianity
Christian life |
ISBN |
9783031128110
9783031128103 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- What Is Global Christianity? -- Is There One Christianity? -- Where, Exactly, Is Global Christianity? -- Structure of This Book -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Part I: Methods -- Chapter 2: History -- Archives -- Local Literature and Oral Histories -- Analyzing Missionary Sources -- Challenges to Writing Global Christian History -- Advice for Visiting Archives -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Ethnography -- Ethnography, Missions, and Christianity -- Christianity and Anthropology -- Getting Started in Ethnographic Research -- Suggestions for Starting to Work Ethnographically -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Theology -- Historical Theology -- Ecumenism -- Belief -- Studying Theology in a Global Context -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Demography -- Christians and the History of Quantification -- Methods and Sources for Demography -- Databases -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Part II: Themes -- Chapter 6: Agency -- Defining "Agency" -- Agency and Colonialism -- Power and Agency -- Implications -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: Mission -- What Is Mission? Who Is a Missionary? -- Mission and Imperialism -- Non-Westerners as Missionaries -- Mission in a Polycentric World -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: Conversion -- Socio-Economic Factors in Conversion -- Continuity -- Discontinuity -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: Gender and Sexuality -- Missionaries and Men in the Study of Global Christianity -- Women and Missions -- Global Christianity as a Women's Movement -- Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Global Christianity -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10: Translation -- Language, Texts, and Religion -- Language, Empire, and Colonialism.
Texts and Translation -- Problems with Translation -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11: Migration -- Missions, Migration, and Colonialism -- Reverse Mission -- Other Contemporary Forms of Migration -- Christianity and the Spirituality of Migration -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Chapter 12: Decolonization -- Decolonization as Historical Context -- Decolonization as Intellectual Process -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Chapter 13: Neglected Topics in the Study of Global Christianity -- Failure and Decline -- Violence and Persecution -- Religious Freedom -- Power Imbalances -- Catholicism and Orthodoxy -- Ecology -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Chapter 14: The Futures of Christianity -- Violence and Vitality -- Secularization -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Glossary -- Index. |
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Religious Conversion in Africa |
Autore | Bruner Jason |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (126 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Research & information: general |
Soggetto non controllato |
Orthodox Christianity
conversion ritualism religiosity Uganda modernity post-coloniality globalism anti-globalism Ethiopian Orthodox Church religious conversion women representation medieval Christianity hagiography social engagement faith-based NGO Ahmadiyya Burkina Faso France Pentecostal/charismatic missionization spiritual warfare networks Roman Catholicism reconversion linearity missionaries Mozambique Mormonism The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Anthony Obinna southeastern Nigeria Rastafari Ghana Jamaica Pan-African trodding the path livity Africa anthropology of Christianity history Africana religions historiography |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557111803321 |
Bruner Jason
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Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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