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The next christendom : the coming of global Christianity / Philip Jenkins.

Jenkins, Philip, 1952-
2011
270.830112 J52n 2011
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Title
The next christendom : the coming of global Christianity / Philip Jenkins.
Author
Jenkins, Philip, 1952-
Edition
3rd ed.
ISBN
9780199767465
0199767467
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 346 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
270.830112 J52n 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)678924439
(OCoLC)678924439
Summary
"In looking back over the enormous changes wrought by the twentieth century, Western observers may have missed the most dramatic revolution of all. While secular movements like communism, feminism, and environmentalism have gotten the lion's share of our attention, the explosive southward expansion of Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has barely registered on Western consciousness. Nor has the globalization of Christianity - and the enormous religious, political, and social consequences it portends - been properly understood." "Philip Jenkins' The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity is the first book to take the full measure of the changing face of the Christian faith. Jenkins asserts that by the year 2050 only one Christian in five will be a non-Latino white person and that the center of gravity of the Christian world will have shifted firmly to the Southern Hemisphere."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-324) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The Christian revolution
Disciples of all nations
Missionaries and prophets
Standing alone
The rise of the new Christianity
Coming to terms
God and the world
The next crusade
Coming home
Seeing Christianity again for the first time.
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