The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

Book, 2002, 270 pp
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The churches that have grown most rapidly in Africa, Asia and Latin America are often far more morally conservative and apocalyptic. Mysticism, puritanism, faith-healing, exorcism, and dream visions - concepts which more liberal churches have traded in for progressive political and social concerns - are basic to these newer churches.

How is new Christianity likely to affect the poor, among whom it finds its most devoted adherents? How should we interpret the enormous success of prosperity churches across the Global South? Politically, what will be the impact of new Christian movements? Will Christianity contribute to liberating the poor, to give voices to the previously silent, or does it threaten only to bring new kinds of division and conflict? Does Christianity liberate women, or introduce new scriptural bases for subjection?

TypePrint
AudienceAdults
LanguageEnglish
PublisherOxford University Press

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