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The Next Christendom The Coming of Global Christianity

by: Jenkins, Philip

ISBN: 9780195146165 | 0195146166

Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/31/2002

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

The explosive southward expansion of Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin American 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... MORE center of gravity of the Christian world will have shifted firmly to the Southern hemisphere. Within a few decades Kinshasa, Buenos Aires, Addis Ababa, and Manila will replace Rome, Athens, Paris, London, and New York as the focal points of the Church. Moreover, Jenkins shows that the churches that have grown most rapidly in the global south are far more traditional, morally conservative, evangelical, and apocalyptic than their northern counterparts. Mysticism, puritanism, belief in prophecy, faith-healing, exorcism, and dream-visions--concepts which more liberal western churches have traded in for progressive political and social concerns--are basic to the newer churches in the south. And the effects of such beliefs on global politics, Jenkins argues, will be enormous, as religious identification begins to take precedence over allegiance to secular nation-states. Indeed, as Christianity grows in regions where Islam is also expected to increase--as recent conflicts in Indonesia, Nigeria, and the Philippines reveal--we may see a return to the religious wars of the past, fought out with renewed intensity and high-tech weapons far surpassing the swords and spears of the middle ages. Jenkins shows that Christianity is on the rise again, and to understand what that rise may mean requires a new awareness of what is happening in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The Next Christendom takes the first large step towards that new awareness.

The first edition of The Next Christendom has been hailed as a landmark in our understanding of modern Christianity. Renowned scholar of religion Philip Jenkins was the first to document Christianity's dramatic demographic shift to the Southern Hemisphere and to recognize the larger significance of that previously overlooked phenomenon. In this new and substantially expanded second edition, Jenkins continues to study the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South, in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Among the major new topics covered are the growing schism between Northern and Southern churches over issues of gender and sexuality, immigrant and ethnic churches in Europe and North America, and changes in the Roman Catholic Church since the election of Pope Benedict XVI. Jenkins also analyzes the growing conflicts between Christians and Muslims around the world, particularly in Nigeria and the Sudan, but also within Europe itself. The first volume in a trilogy on the changing face of Christianity, this award-winning book will be welcomed by all of those who have come to recognize Philip Jenkins as one of our leading commentators on religion and world affairs. Book jacket.

We are living through one of the greatest transformations in the history of religion worldwide. Over the last century, Christianity has enjoyed explosive growth in the global South - in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Within a few decades, Christianity will be overwhelmingly a non-European, non-white religion. Philip Jenkins argues that what we are seeing is no less than the creation of a new Christendom, which for better or worse will play a major role in world affairs. Thisbook offers the first in-depth examination of the globalization of Christianity and discusses the implications for Christian worship, liturgy, culture, and political life. In addition, the denominations that are triumphing all over the global south are strongly traditional and even reactionary by thestandards of economically advanced nations. Their message tends to be charismatic, visionary, and apocalyptic. This newly militant Christianity may give rise to renewed religious rivalry, especially since Islam is expanding in the same areas as Christianity. The resulting confrontations have already given rise to deadly conflicts in places like Nigeria, Malaysia, and Indonesia. An unprecedented and potentially dangerous global change is underway. This intelligent and incisive book is animportant first step toward understanding its challenges and its threats.

List of Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Maps	p. x
The Christian Revolution	p. 1
Disciples of All Nations	p. 15
Missionaries and Prophets	p. 39
Standing Alone	p. 55
The Rise of the New Christianity	p. 79
Coming to Terms	p. 107
God and the World	p. 141
The Next Crusade	p. 16... MORE3
Coming Home	p. 191
Seeing Christianity Again for the First Time	p. 211
Notes	p. 223
Index	p. 259
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Philip Jenkins is Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Penn State University.

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