The Changing Face of Christianity

Abstract This essay provides the global context for the local studies that follow: the emergence of Christianity as a world religion, its rising prominence in the global south and east and its waning influence and adherence in the North Atlantic region. Sanneh highlights the cultural repositioning o...

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Main Author: Sanneh, Lamin
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Oxford University PressNew York 2005
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North Atlantic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/0195177282.003.0001
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spelling croxfordunivpr:10.1093/0195177282.003.0001 2024-05-19T07:44:57+00:00 The Changing Face of Christianity The Cultural Impetus of a World Religion Sanneh, Lamin 2005 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/0195177282.003.0001 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/45003454/book_4326_section_146247728.ag.pdf en eng Oxford University PressNew York The Changing Face of Christianity page 3-18 ISBN 0195177282 9780195177282 9780199835812 book-chapter 2005 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/0195177282.003.0001 2024-05-02T09:30:41Z Abstract This essay provides the global context for the local studies that follow: the emergence of Christianity as a world religion, its rising prominence in the global south and east and its waning influence and adherence in the North Atlantic region. Sanneh highlights the cultural repositioning of African Christianity and Asian Christianity away from their old intellectual and political cradle in Europe. These new forms of “world Christianity” are expressed in more languages, cultural traditions and models of faith and practice than ever before, and they are engaged in a growing cultural conflict with European Christianity and its expressions in North America. This interdisciplinary study shows that expounding the story of world Christianity requires new combinations of scholarly skills and experience. Book Part North Atlantic Oxford University Press 3 18
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