Autorentext
Philip Jenkins is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University. He is the author of many books and articles, including the acclaimed The Future of Christianity Trilogy, consisting of The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South, and God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis.

Klappentext

This new and substantially expanded edition of Philip Jenkins's influential book The Next Christendom tracks the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South, in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and the implications of that shift in numbers and influence away from the traditional Christian heartlands of Europe and North America.

Inhalt

• Acknowledgments

• List of Tables

• Preface

• Maps

• Chapter One: The Christian Revolution

• Chapter Two: Disciples of All Nations

• Chapter Three: Missionaries and Prophets

• Chapter Four: Standing Alone

• Chapter Five: The Rise of the New Christianity

• Chapter Six: Coming to Terms

• Chapter Seven: God and the World

• Chapter Eight: The Next Crusade

• Chapter Nine: Coming Home

• Chapter Ten: Seeing Christianity Again for the First Time

• Index