The World's Christians (eBook)

Who They Are, Where They Are, and How They Got There

Douglas Jacobsen (Autor)

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2021 | 2. Auflage
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-62612-1 (ISBN)

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This accessible textbook describes Christianity, the world's largest religion, in all of its historical and contemporary diversity.  No other publication includes so much information or presents it so clearly and winsomely. This volume employs a 'religious studies' approach that is neutral in tone yet accommodates the lived experiences of Christians in different traditions and from all regions of the globe. The World's Christians is a perfect textbook for either public university classrooms or liberal arts campuses.  

 

Divided into three parts, the text first describes the world's four largest Christian traditions (Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Pentecostal) which together account for roughly 98 percent of all Christians worldwide. A second section focuses on Christian history, explaining the movement's developing ideas and practices and examining Christianity's engagement with people and cultures around the world. The third and longest portion of the text details the distinctive experiences, contemporary challenges, and demographics of Christians in nine geographic regions, including the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe, South Asia, North America, East Asia, and Oceania.  

 

The second edition of this popular text has been thoroughly rewritten to take recent developments into account, and each chapter now includes two primary source readings, highlighting the diversity of voices that exist within the world Christian movement. Like the first edition, the revised text is enhanced with easily understandable maps, charts, tables and illustrative photographs.  In summary, this new and improved second edition of The World's Christians is:  

 

DOUGLAS JACOBSEN (Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO) is Co-Director of the Religion in the Academy Project and Distinguished Professor of Church History and Theology at Messiah University (Pennsylvania, USA). He is the award-winning author of a dozen books on a wide range of topics related to religion.

Introduction

Part I: Who They Are - Four Christian Mega-Traditions

Introduction

1 The Orthodox Tradition

2 The Catholic Tradition

3 The Protestant Tradition

4 The Pentecostal Tradition

Part II: How They Got There - A Global History of Christianity

Introduction

5 The Ancient Tradition: Beginnings to 500

6 The Great Division and the Age of the East: 500 to 1000

7 The Rise of the West and Decline of the East: 1000 to 1500

8 Christianity in a Global Era: 1500 to the Present

Part III: Where They Are - Christianity in Nine World Regions

Introduction

9 The Middle East and North Africa: Barely Surviving

10 Eastern Europe: Nationalism and New Mission

11 Central and South Asia: Confidence and Complexity

12 Western Europe: Thin, but Alive

13 Sub-Saharan Africa: Hope and Despair

14 East Asia: Piety and Politics

15 Latin America: After Monopoly

16 North America: Power, Freedom, Race, and Nation

17 Oceania: Experiments in Identity

Appendix: Counting Christians

List of Illustrations

Figures

Figure 1.1

Number of Orthodox Christians living in each region of the world

Figure 1.2

Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral (Sibiu, Romania), interior of main dome

Figure 1.3

Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral (Sibiu, Romania), nave and iconostasis

Figure 1.4

Interior of small Orthodox church (Kalopanagiotis, Cyprus)

Figure 1.5

Key events in Orthodox history

Figure 2.1

Number of Catholic Christians living in each region of the world

Figure 2.2

Statues of the Infant of Prague (the baby Jesus) for sale at shop near the Church of Our Lady Victorious in Prague (Czech Republic)

Figure 2.3

Interior of the Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (Los Angeles, California)

Figure 2.4

St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican

Figure 2.5

The Gero Cross, the oldest known crucifix made in Western Europe north of the Alps

Figure 2.6

Timeline showing key events in Catholic history

Figure 3.1

Number of Protestant Christians living in each region of the world

Figure 3.2

Interior of Reformed Church (Sibiu, Romania) illustrating the architectural centrality of the pulpit

Figure 3.3

The Evangelical Lutheran Cathedral (Helsinki, Finland)

Figure 3.4

God’s Missionary Church (Camp Hill, Pennsylvania)

Figure 3.5

Key events in Protestant history

Figure 4.1

Number of Pentecostal Christians living in each region of the world

Figure 4.2

Aimee Semple McPherson

Figure 4.3

Diagram illustrating sociological structure of the Pentecostal movement

Figure 4.4

The Holy Spirit Church of East Africa (Bukoyani, Kenya)

Figure 4.5

International Church of the Grace of God (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Figure 5.1

Timeline for ancient Christianity, beginnings to 500

Figure 5.2

Sketch of structure of a Roman basilica and interior of Santa Maria Maggiore Church (Rome)

Figure 5.3

Two portrayals of Jesus in early Christian art

Figure 5.4

Roman Empire at peak size

Figure 5.5

Timeline of major events for Christianity in the Roman Empire

Figure 5.6

Icon of the martyrdom of Perpetua, Felicitas, and others

Figure 5.7

Church built around Symeon’s pillar

Figure 5.8

Map of Sasanian Empire, c. 250

Figure 5.9

Church of the Holy Mother of God, a seventh‐century building located in Ashtarak, Armenia

Figure 6.1

The Great Division

Figure 6.2

Map showing the primary geographic locations of the four Christian mega‐traditions that existed in the years 500 to 1000

Figure 6.3

Chapel of São Frutuoso (Braga, Portugal), a Visigoth church built in the 600s

Figure 6.4

Byzantine and Arab Empires, c. 800

Figure 6.5

Timeline of the Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire, c. 500–1000

Figure 6.6

Timeline for the Church of the East, c. 500–1000

Figure 6.7

Da Qin Pagoda (Pagoda of the West), an eighth‐century Christian monastery located about 50 miles southwest of Xian (formerly Chang’an), China

Figure 6.8

Mugao Caves Monastery (Dunhuang, China)

Figure 6.9

Charlemagne’s domain

Figure 6.10

Baptism of Boris I, illustration from a fourteenth‐century chronicle by Constantine Manasses

Figure 7.1

Timeline of general councils of the Catholic Church held during this time period (1000–1500)

Figure 7.2

Fresco in Orvieto Cathedral (Italy) that illustrates the doctrine of transubstantiation

Figure 7.3

Fresco by Domenico di Michelino (1417–91) portraying the Italian author Dante with the seven‐story mountain of purgatory made famous in his trilogy The Divine Comedy

Figure 7.4

Map showing spread of Black Death, 1347–50

Figure 7.5

Church of St. George (Lalibela, Ethiopia)

Figure 7.6

Timeline of medieval Christian crusades against religious others

Figure 7.7

Map showing advance of the reconquista in Spain, c. 800–1492

Figure 7.8

Aerial and interior photographs of Mezquita Cathedral (Cordoba, Spain)

Figure 7.9

Latin Empire in former Byzantine territory, 1204–61

Figure 7.10

Queen Sorkaktani‐beki with her husband Tolui

Figure 7.11

Timeline of Christian decline in Persia and Central Asia

Figure 8.1

Dirk Willems rescuing his pursuer

Figure 8.2

William J. Seymour with other leaders of the Azusa Street revival

Figure 8.3

Chiesa di Sant’Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio, a Baroque style Catholic church in Rome built in the early 1600s

Figure 8.4

Diagram displaying the race‐based hierarchy of social and spiritual status that existed in colonial Latin American society

Figure 8.5

João I, the first Christian king of the Congo, who ruled from 1470 to 1509

Figure 8.6

Timeline of some of the religious wars resulting from the Protestant Revolution and of three significant peace agreements

Figure 8.7

Global map of the Cold War, c. 1980

Figure 8.8

Changing demographics of the world Christian movement from 1900 to 2050

Figure III.1

Nine cultural‐geographic mega‐regions of the world

Figure III.2

Where the world’s Christians live

Figure 9.1

The Middle East and North Africa: global location and population information

Figure 9.2

Regional map of the Middle East and North Africa

Figure 9.3

Map showing overlap of Muslim, Arab, and formerly Ottoman territory in the Middle East and North Africa

Figure 9.4

Map showing nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century European colonization of the Middle East and North Africa

Figure 9.5

Christian profile of the Middle East and North Africa

Figure 9.6

Icon of the Christian martyrs killed on a beach in Libya in 2015 portrayed as saints

Figure 9.7

Coptic Pope Tawadros II appearing in church with Egyptian President al‐Sisi in January 2018

Figure 9.8

Survivors of the Armenian genocide pose with a pyramid of skulls of those who died

Figure 10.1

Eastern Europe: global location and population information

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.4.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: Africa • Asia • Catholic • Christentum • Christian diversity • Christian History • Christianity • Christian Mission • Christian traditions • Eastern Europe • Global Christianity • Globalization • History of Christianity • indigenization • Introduction to Christianity • Latin America • North America • Orthodox • pentecostal • Protestant • Religion • Religion & Theology • Religion u. Theologie • religious demographics • Religious Studies • Textbook • Western Europe • World Christianity • World religions
• ISBN-10: 1-119-62612-9 / 1119626129
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-62612-1 / 9781119626121

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