Christianity at the Crossroads
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-59743-2 (ISBN)
Combining expansive storytelling with striking analysis of 'networks, nodes, and nuclei', David Hempton's new book explains major developments in global Christianity between two communication revolutions: print and the internet. His novel approach (replete with vivid metaphor – we read of wildflower gardens and fungi, of exploding fireworks sending sparks of possibility in all directions, and of forests with vast interconnected root systems hidden below our vision) allows him to look beyond institutional hierarchies, traverse national and denominational boundaries, and think more deeply about the underlying conditions promoting, or resisting, adaptation and change. It also enables him to explore the crossroads, or junction boxes, where individuals and ideas encountered different traditions and from which something fresh and dynamic emerged. Cogently addressing the rise of empires, transformation of gender relations, and demographic shifts in world Christianity from the West to the Global South, this book is a masterful contribution to contemporary religious history.
David N. Hempton is University Distinguished Service Professor and Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at the Divinity School, Harvard University, where he also served as Dean from 2012–2023. An internationally acclaimed religious historian, he is the author of numerous books focused on the early modern and modern periods, several of them award winners. His publications include Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750–1850 (Hutchinson, 1984, which in the same year won the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society), Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Methodism: Empire of the Spirit (Yale University Press, 2005), Evangelical Disenchantment: Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt (Yale University Press, 2008) and The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century (I. B. Tauris, 2011, winner of the 2012 Albert C. Outler Prize of the American Society of Church History). He has delivered, over the course of his career, several sets of endowed lectures including the Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham, the F. D. Maurice Lectures at King's College London, and the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, from which the present book is derived. He is in addition a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Ecclesiastical History Society, and an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
1. Towards a theory of transnational religious change; 2. Religious networks in the Reformation era; 3. Religious networks in the age of empire in New Spain and West Africa; The Protestant International: pietism, premillenialism, and pentecostalism; 5. Women's networks: opportunities and limitations; 6. 'Only Connect!': Networked Christianity in the digital age.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.06.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 147 x 223 mm |
| Gewicht | 470 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
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| ISBN-10 | 1-009-59743-4 / 1009597434 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-59743-2 / 9781009597432 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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