Christianity in the twentieth century

a world history

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Christianity in the twentieth century
Brian Stanley, Brian Stanley
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Table of Contents

Wars and rumors of wars: the response of British and American churches to the First World War. The global religious legacy of the First World War ; The British churches: the religious legacy of the First World War ; Fighting for the faith: American fundamentalism between the wars ; Divergent Christian responses
Holy nations? Uneasy marriages between Christianity and nationalism. Christianity and the diffusion of nationalism ; Protestant nationalism in Korea: Christianity, anticolonialism, and national identity ; Catholic nationalism in Poland: Mary as the queen of a dismembered nation ; Christianity and nationalism: uneasy bedfellows
The power of the word and prophecy: pathways of conversion in Africa and the Pacific. The "Great Century" of conversion to Christianity ; Three West African prophet movements ; Conversion and revival movements in Melanesia ; The ambiguous power of the word
Making war on the Saints: the Church under siege in France and the Soviet Union. Varieties of the secular ; The Catholic Church, the State, and religious practice in secular France ; Orthodox and Protestant churches in the Soviet Union ; The impotence of the secular state
Contrasting patterns of belonging and believing: Scandinavia and the United States. Who is the exceptional case? ; Scandinavia: belonging without much believing ; The United States: changing patterns of belonging and believing ; Marriages of the religious and the secular
Is Christ divided? The ecumenical movement and its converse. Was the twentieth century the ecumenical century? ; Church union and disunion in the Indian subcontinent ; Christian unity and disunity in Republican and Communist China ; The failure and success of the ecumenical movement
The voice of your brother's blood: Christianity, ethnic hatred, and genocide in Nazi Germany and Rwanda. Theories of race and vocabularies of ethnic hostility ; Race and religion in Nazi Germany ; The Church and ethnic conflict in Rwanda ; Christian prophecy and its failures
Aliens in a strange land? Living n an Islamic context in Egypt and Indonesia. Christianity and religious plurality ; Coptic Christianity in Egypt ; the Church in Indonesia ; The politics of Christian survival
That the world may believe: Christian mission to the modern world. From "making Jesus King" to the Missio Dei ; Reconceiving the Catholic Church and its mission: the Second Vatican Council, 1962-65 ; Reconceiving Protestant missions: the Uppsala Assembly of 1968 and the Lausanne Congress of 1974 ; Mission in a postcolonial age
Good news to the poor? Theologies of liberation in Latin America and Palestine. The priority of praxis ; The origins of Latin American liberation theology ; Palestine: searching for liberation without exodus ; The God who acts
Doing justice in South Africa and Canada: the humans rights agenda, race, and indigenous peoples. The Churches and human rights ideology ; Apartheid and the Churches ; The Canadian Churches and the residential schools ; From civilization to human rights
A noise of war in the camp: human rights, gender, and sexuality. Egalitarianism and Christian tradition ; The ordination of women in Australian Anglicanism ; Debates over gay rights in the American Churches ; Christian culture wars
The Spirit and the spirits: global Pentecostal Christianities. The new Pentecost ; Pentecostal Christianities in Ghana ; Pentecostalism in Brazil ; The religious chameleon
The Eastern Orthodox Church and the modern world. The westward diffusion of Eastern Orthodoxy in the twentieth century ; Orthodoxy in Greece and Turkey: ethnic cleansing, nationalism, and the Holy Mountain of Athos ; New strands of Orthodoxy in twentieth-century Africa ; Tradition and change in the Orthodox world
Migrant churches. Migration and the making of world Christianity ; The black exodus from the American South and Jamaica ; Chinese migrant churches: trans-Pacific connections ; Migration and the reshaping of Christianity in the West.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-469) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
270.8/2
Library of Congress
BR479 .S7155 2018, BR479.S7155 2018

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Pagination
xxi, 477 pages
Number of pages
477

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Open Library
OL26961108M
ISBN 10
0691157103
ISBN 13
9780691157108
LCCN
2017039619
OCLC/WorldCat
1022080555

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