The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity (eBook)

Lamin Sanneh, Michael McClymond (Herausgeber)

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2016
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-55439-5 (ISBN)

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity presents a collection of essays that explore a range of topics relating to the rise, spread, and influence of Christianity throughout the world.

• Features contributions from renowned scholars of history and religion from around the world
• Addresses the origins and global expansion of Christianity over the course of two millennia
• Covers a wide range of themes relating to Christianity, including women, worship, sacraments, music, visual arts, architecture, and many more
• Explores the development of Christian traditions over the past two centuries across several continents and the rise in secularization

Lamin Sanneh is the D. Willis James Professor of World Christianity and of History at Yale University. He is the author of more than 200 articles and a dozen books on Islam and Christianity.
Michael McClymond is Professor of Modern Christianity at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Familiar Stranger: An Introduction to Jesus of Nazareth (2004), editor of The Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America (2007), and co-author of The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (2012).

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Notes on Contributors

1. Allan H. Anderson is Professor of Mission and Pentecostal Studies at the University of Birmingham, England, where he has been since 1995. He is author of many articles, editor of three collections, and author of nine books on global Pentecostalism and African Christianity, the most recent being Spreading Fires (2007), To the Ends of the Earth (2013), and the second edition of An Introduction to Pentecostalism (2014).
2. Anna Anisi, PGDip Dev Studies, University of the South Pacific, Fiji, is a research assistant at the Institute of Research and Social Analysis of the Pacific Theological College, Suva, Fiji.
3. J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, PhD, is Baeta-Grau Professor of Contemporary African Christianity and Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology in Africa at the Trinity Theological Seminary, Accra, Ghana. His teaching areas include non-Western Christianity and Theology and Media in Africa. Kwabena has served as visiting scholar to the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University (2004); Luther Seminary, Saint Paul (2007); and Senior Resident Scholar at the Overseas Ministries Study Center (2012). He is a member of the Lausanne Theology Working Group and a Trustee of the Oxford Center for Mission Studies, UK. Kwabena is author of: African Charismatics: Current Developments within Independent Indigenous Pentecostalism in Ghana (2005); Christianity, Missions and Ecumenism in Ghana (2009); Strange Warmth: Wesleyan Perspectives on Renewal, Ministry and Discipleship (2011); co-editor with Frieder Ludwig of African Christian Presence in the West: New Immigrant Congregations and Transnational Networks in North America and Europe (2011); Contemporary Pentecostal Christianity: Interpretations from an African Context (2013); and many articles in international journals relating to his fields of research.
4. David R. Bains is Professor of Religion at Samford University. His current research includes Religious Capital: Building National Houses of Worship in Washington, DC. He is co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Space, Place, and Religion Group.
5. Daniel H. Bays is Professor of History Emeritus at Calvin College, Grand Rapids. His major works include Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century until the Present, editor (1996); and A New History of Christianity in China (2012).
6. George Berbary is a priest in the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, the Archdiocese of Mount Lebanon. He was born in Beirut in 1968. He works as a researcher at the Institute of History, Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies (IOHANES) at the University of Balamand. He studied theology at the University of Balamand, and Ecumenical Studies at the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey – the World Council of Churches. He contributed, with the university president, to the publication of two books on Patriarch Ignatius IV (Hazim). He is the publisher of Orthodox Historians’ Contribution in Historiography and has written numerous articles and studies on history and on manuscripts. He is part of a team currently working on the architecture of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch (ARPOA).
7. Govert Buijs studied political science, philosophy and theology at various institutions and currently holds the Abraham Kuyper Chair for political philosophy in relation to religion at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His research interests concern the role of religion and morality in the interplay of politics, civil society and the market. Recent research focuses on the socio-political impact of the Christian concept of agape/caritas.
8. Jan van Butselaar studied theology in Amsterdam (Free University) and Geneva (Bossey). He received his doctoral degree in Leiden, The Netherlands; his thesis was entitled “Africains, missionnaires et colonialistes. Les origines de l’Église Presbytérienne du Mozambique (Mission Suisse), 1880-1896.” He has lectured at the theological colleges in Butare, Rwanda, and Rikatla, Mozambique. Later, he became general secretary of The Netherlands Missionary Council and of the International Association of Mission Studies. He has also been a consultant for the mission department of the World Council of Churches.
9. Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. He is an anthropologist who works on charismatic Christianity and pilgrimage, and has conducted fieldwork in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Nigeria. He is a former editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and a current co-editor of the journal Religion and Society: Advances in Research.
10. John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University. His books include The Apocalyptic Imagination (revised edition, 1998), Between Athens and Jerusalem. Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora (revised edition, 2000), Beyond the Qumran Community (2010) and The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography (2012). He is editor of The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature (2014) and co-editor of The Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010) and The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2010).
11. Stephen Dove is an Assistant Professor of History at Centre College in Danville. His current research project examines the interaction of local and foreign forces in the early development of Guatemalan Protestantism. He earned his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and his MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary.
12. Angelyn Dries is Professor Emerita, Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University, where she held the Danforth Chair in the Humanities. Her extensive publications and university courses have focused on Missions History, World Christianity, and Women in Mission. Her book, The Missionary Movement in American Catholic History (1998), was the first comprehensive history of Catholic missions to, within, and from the United States. She is a contributing editor for International Bulletin of Missionary Research.
13. Manfred Ernst, Dipl Pol PhD, University of Hamburg, is the Director of the Institute for Research and Social Analysis (IRSA) of the Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji. Doctor Ernst is a social scientist and has published several books, both as author, co-author or editor on a variety of subjects, mainly related to socio-economic political development issues, and sociology of religion. In Oceania he is best known for his research and publications on rapidly growing religious groups.
14. Norman Etherington, AM, is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Western Australia and a Research Associate at the University of South Africa. A past president of the Australian Historical Association, he is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Royal Historical Society, UK. In 2012 he was made a member of the Order of Australia. He edited Missions and Empire (2007).
15. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto joined the History Department at the University of Notre Dame in 2009, after occupying chairs at Tufts University and the University of London. Previously he taught at Oxford University, where he did his undergraduate and doctoral studies. He has had visiting appointments at many universities and research institutes in Europe and the Americas, and holds honorary doctorates from La Trobe University and the Universidad de los Andes. His books include: The Canary Islands after the Conquest (1982), Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic 1229–1492 (1987), The Spanish Armada (1990), Columbus (1991), Millennium: A History of Our Last Thousand Years (1995), Reformation: Christianity & the World 1500–2000 (1996) (co-authored with Derek Wilson), Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed (1997), Civilizations (2000), Food: A History (published as Near a Thousand Tables in the United States/Canada) (2001), The Americas: A Hemispheric History (2003), Ideas That Changed the World (2003), Humankind: A Brief History (2004), Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration (2006), The World: A Brief History (2007), Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America (2007), 1492: The Year the World Began (2009), and Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States (2014).
16. Lori Ferrell is Professor of Early Modern British History and Literature in the School of Arts and Humanities, Claremont Graduate University. In addition to many articles and essays on the cultural history of the English Bible she is the author of The Bible and the People (2009) and the editor of Volume 11 of The Oxford Sermons of John Donne: Sermons Delivered at St Paul’s Cathedral (forthcoming).
17. Paul Freston is Chair in Religion and Politics in Global Context at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He has worked on religion and politics; evangelicalism in the global south; and religion and globalization. His books include: Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America (2001); Protestant Political Parties: a Global Survey (2004); and Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America (2008).
18. Martin Ganeri is Vice-Regent of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. His research has focused on...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.3.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Religion
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Religion
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: Christentum • Christian History • Christianity • Christian traditions • Comparative & World Religions • Global Christianity • Protestant Reformation • Religion • Religion & Theology • Religion u. Theologie • Religious History • Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft • World Christianity
• ISBN-10: 1-118-55439-6 / 1118554396
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-55439-5 / 9781118554395