Religion on the move! : new dynamics of religious expansion in a globalizing world /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013. |
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| Description: | xvi, 470 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International studies in religion and society, 1573-4293 ; v. 15 International studies in religion and society ; v. 15 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13162100 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Exploring New Frontiers in Global Religious Dynamics
- Part I. Decentering the Center: The "Christian West" and Postcolonial Mission Discourse
- 1. Pax et Securitas: The Problematic Missional Role of Theopolitical Rhetoric in the Contexts of Globalization and Terror
- 2. Ignoring the East: Correcting a Serious Flaw in World Christianity Scholarship
- 3. Southern Saints and their Northern Siblings: Christians Crossing Boundaries through Sister Church Relationships
- 4. The Church Mission Society and Reverse Mission: From Colonial Sending to Postcolonial Partnership and Reception
- Part II. From Everywhere to Everywhere: Missionaries in Comparative and Cross-Regional Perspective
- 5. Indigenization, Syncretism and the Assumed Boundedness of Christianity: A Critique
- 6. Syncretism of Christian samurai at the Kumamoto Band in Japan: Fulfillment of Confucianism in Christianity
- 7. Exploring the South-South Trajectory of Global Religious Flows: The Origins of Ghana's Hinduism
- 8. Door to Door Da'wa in Africa: Dynamics of Proselytization in Yan Izala and Tablighi Jama'at
- 9. Korean Missionaries: Preaching the Gospel to "All Nations," including the United States
- 10. Religion in Motion: A Missionary Narrative of Creativity and Survival from the Pentecostal Nigerian Diaspora in Italy
- Part III. Local Schisms Over Globalizing Religious Discourses: Disempowerment, Deviance, and Inequality
- 11. Mobilizing Gender around the Globe: The Ecumenical Movement as a Resource for gender Equity in Arab Christianity
- 12. Towards a Global Sisterhood: The Transnational Activities of the Federation of Muslim Women's Associations in Nigeria
- 13. Localizing Christianity for Social Change: The Subversion of Caste in Rural South India
- 14. Local Revival and Global Expansion: The Case of African Christianity
- 15. The Shifting Map of Religious Proclivity in Brazil, and How the Media Prospect is Seemingly Unable to Deal with It
- 16. Dynamics of Islamic Religious Movements in Nigeria: A Case Study of Nasra-Lahil-Fatih Society of Nigeria
- Part IV. Religious Islands or Innovators: Immigrant Practices and Perspectives
- 17. New Dynamics of Christian Expansion: Boundary Crossing in the Mission of Immigrant Churches in the Netherlands
- 18. Expanding Boundaries of Recognition and Mobility?-Otherworldly Rhetoric and This-worldly Organisation in an African based Charismatic Church in Germany
- 19. Migration and the Growth of Evangelical Christianity: An Ethnographic Study in Cuernavaca, Mexico
- 20. The Politicization of Religious Identity in Sudan, with Special Reference to Oral Histories of the Sudanese Diaspora in America
- 21. Reverse Evangelization: Pentecostal Imagination and Mobilization of Identity in the French Migrant Context
- 22. Local Relevance and Global Appeal: Nigerian Female Religious Leaders in London: Case Study of Lady Evangelist/Prophetess Lizzy Adedamola a. k. a. Alhaja Jesu, Founder of Gospel Light Evangelical Ministry
- Contributors
- Index