World Christianity, Urbanization and Identity
World Christianity, Urbanization and Identity

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Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2021-02-09

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1506448488

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World Christianity, Urbanization and Identity argues that urban centers, particularly the largest cities, do not only offer places for people to live, shop, and seek entertainment, but deeply shape people's ethics, behavior, sense of justice, and how they learn to become human. Given that religious participation and institutions are vital to individual and communal life, particularly in urban centers, this interdisciplinary volume seeks to provide insights into the interaction between urban change, religious formation, and practice and to understand how these shape individual and group identities in a world that is increasingly urban. World Christianity, Urbanization and Identity is part of the multi-volume series World Christianity and Public Religion. The series seeks to become a platform for intercultural and intergenerational dialogue, and to facilitate opportunities for interaction between scholars across the Global South and those in other parts of the world.

World Christianity, Urbanization and Identity
World Christianity, Urbanization and Identity

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Published: 2021-02-09

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781506448473

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World Christianity, Urbanization and Identity argues that urban centers, particularly the largest cities, do not only offer places for people to live, shop, and seek entertainment, but deeply shape people's ethics, behavior, sense of justice, and how they learn to become human. Given that religious participation and institutions are vital to individual and communal life, particularly in urban centers, this interdisciplinary volume seeks to provide insights into the interaction between urban change, religious formation, and practice and to understand how these shape individual and group identities in a world that is increasingly urban. World Christianity, Urbanization and Identity is part of the multi-volume series World Christianity and Public Religion. The series seeks to become a platform for intercultural and intergenerational dialogue, and to facilitate opportunities for interaction between scholars across the Global South and those in other parts of the world.

World Christianity
World Christianity

Author: Hanciles, Jehu, J.

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2021-11-17

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1608339114

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"Provides a critical reassessment of the study of world Christianity that connects historical developments to current debates and new trajectories"--

World Christianity as Public Religion
World Christianity as Public Religion

Author: Raimundo C. Barreto

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2017-10-18

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1506433723

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In a context of globalization, socioeconomic disparity, environmental concerns, mass migration, and multiplying political and social upheavals, Christians from different parts of the world are forced to ask complex questions about poverty, migration, race, gender, sexuality, and land-related conflicts. Scholars have gradually become aware that world Christianity has a public face, voice, and reason. This volume stresses world Christianity as a form of public religion, identifying areas for intercultural engagement. It proposes a conversation that includes voices from South and North America, Europe, and Africa, highlighting differences and commonalities as Christian scholars from different parts of the world address concerns related to world Christianity and public responsibility. Divided into five sections, each formed by two chapters, this volume covers themes such as the reimagination of theology, doctrine, and ecumenical dialogue in the context of world Christianity; Global South perspectives on pluralism and intercultural communication; how epistemological shifts promoted by liberation theology and its dialogue with cultural critical studies have impacted discourses on religion, ethics, and politics; conversations on gender and church from Brazilian and German perspectives; and intercultural proposals for a migratory epistemology that recenters the experience of migration as a primary location for meaning.

World Christianity and Ecological Theologies
World Christianity and Ecological Theologies

Author: Raimundo C. Barreto

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2024-10-22

Total Pages: 399

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World Christianity and Ecological Theologies invites scholars in religious studies and theology from different continents and contexts to a North-South dialogue on environmental ethics, political ecology, and ecofeminism. Throughout the global pandemic, the connection between environmental rapacity, religion, and political interests has once again called scholarly attention to the important conversation on public religion and global environment-related issues. Acknowledging a deficit among scholars of World Christianity in addressing environmental concerns and the field's limited language for framing those concerns, this book aims to bring the fields of study of World Christianity, religion, and ecology into a sustained conversation, with the goal of expanding the theoretical horizons of these fields. World Christianity and Ecological Theologies reiterates that all Christian theologies are contextual, as they shape and are shaped by specific historical and cultural circumstances. It aims at showcasing the ways in which the intersection of religion and ecology is approached by scholars in religious studies and theology in the Global South or by those in conversation with them in the Global North, pointing to what can be generated if these bodies of scholarship are engaged as dialogue partners to investigate new patterns of religious environmentalism.

World Christianity and Interfaith Relations
World Christianity and Interfaith Relations

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Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Published: 2022-10-25

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1506448496

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World Christianity and Interfaith Relations makes the case that religion is not partitioned off from the secular in the Global South the way it is in the Global North. Rather, religion is deeply integrated into the lives of those in the Global South, even though secularism officially predominates.

Migration and Public Discourse in World Christianity
Migration and Public Discourse in World Christianity

Author: Afe Adogame

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1506433707

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Although humans have always migrated, the present phenomenon of mass migration is unprecedented in scale and global in reach. Understanding migration and migrants has become increasingly relevant for world Christianity. This volume identifies and addresses several key topics in the discourse of world Christianity and migration. Senior and emerging scholars and researchers of migration from all regions of the world contribute chapters on central issues, including the feminization of international migration, the theology of migration, south-south migration networks, the connection between world Christianity, migration, and civic responsibility, and the complicated relationship between migration, identity and citizenship. It seeks to give voice particularly to migrant narratives as important sources for public reasoning and theology in the 21st century.

Alterity and the Evasion of Justice
Alterity and the Evasion of Justice

Author: Deanna Ferree Womack

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1506491316

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This volume considers overlooked "others" in the field of World Christianity. Contributors point to gender, sexuality, and race as themes ripe for exploration, while also identifying areas that have fallen outside the dominant World Christianity narrative, such as the Middle East and postcolonial indigenous and aboriginal theological expressions.

Scripture, Cultures, and Criticism
Scripture, Cultures, and Criticism

Author: K. K. Yeo

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-08-23

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1666797839

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This collection of nineteen representative essays is a Festschrift written by former colleagues and students in honor of Prof. Dr. Robert Jewett (1933-2020) and his legacy. Our hope is that future generations of Bible readers will find this textbook on biblical interpretation helpful for navigating through the strong winds of exegetical, theological, and hermeneutical methods. Jewett's expansive research interests have inspired each author in this tribute volume, each of whom has witnessed to the ways that helmsman Jewett has navigated through the often-choppy ocean waters of biblical interpretation--as well as the complex, changing world of religion, sacred texts, films and popular culture, psychology and sociology, politics and Pauline studies. Contributors Kathy Ehrensperger Brigitte Kahl Aliou C. Niang Aida Besancon Spencer Lallene Rector T. Christopher Hoklotubbe Najeeb T. Haddad Robert K. Johnston Frank Hughes Goh Menghun Hii Kong-hock Lim Kar Yong Keith Burton Sheila McGinn Douglas Campbell Ellen Jewett William S. Campbell Troy W. Martin Zakali Shohe Christopher Deacy A. Andrew Das Frederick Mawusi Amevenku

Reading the New Testament in the Manifold Contexts of a Globalized World
Reading the New Testament in the Manifold Contexts of a Globalized World

Author: Eve-Marie Becker

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

Published: 2022-12-12

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 3772057659

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This volume gathers the perspectives of teachers in higher education from all over the world on the topic of New Testament scholarship. The goal is to understand and describe the contexts and conditions under which New Testament research is carried out throughout the world. This endeavor should serve as a catalyst for new initiatives and the development of questions that determine the future directions of New Testament scholarship. At the same time, it is intended to raise awareness of the global dimensions of New Testament scholarship, especially in relation to its impact on socio-political debates. The occasion for these reflections are not least the present questions that have been posed with the corona pandemic and have received a focus on the "system relevance" of churches, which is openly questioned by the media. The church and theology must face this challenge. Towards that end, it is important to gather impulses and suggestions for the discipline from a variety of contexts in which different dimensions of context-related New Testament research come to the fore.