Focuses on the ways in which Christianity has become an integral part of Xiamen, a southeastern Chinese city profoundly influenced by western missionaries. Illustrates the complexities of memory and mission in shaping the city's cultural landscape, church-state dynamics, and global aspirations.
This book paints a portrait of the widespread dispersion and establishment of distinctively Asian Christian communities in their places of settlement. The essays argue that migration has made Asian Christianity more global and explores how Asian-diaspora communities are playing a decisive role in transforming and advancing Christian faith.
_While forgiveness and politics are often regarded as unrelated, this work explores the deep, intrinsic relation between them. Through a discussion of the conflicts in Northern Ireland and Nagaland, it studies biblical foundations of forgiveness, and the practices of politics, to argue they are undergirded and sustained by forgiveness. _
_In Africa, Pentecostalism has become the representative face of Christianity with even historic mission denominations 'pentecostalising' their otherwise formal liturgical structures. This work interprets key theological and missiological themes in Ghanaian Pentecostalism by using material from experiences of the movement itself. _
While the Asian church has begun to reach out to migrants, this concern for others lacks robust theological foundations. The author adapts their previous work and uses otherness and liminality as a lens to examine the scripture to better understand God's heart for migrants and the responsibility of His people towards them.
Asians make up the largest and most dispersed people of the world, and Christians make up a sizable proportion of this demographic. Asian Christians are more likely to emigrate, and many have continued to embrace Christian faith at their diasporic places of settlement. They are quick to establish distinctively Asian churches all over the world and ......
_This is a pioneering work on the ethnopsychology of African healing spaces and its influence on contemporary sacred geography. Since African Christianity is the "new global face" of World Christianity and the "Next Christendom," the relationship of African Christianity and the therapeutic background of African healing shrines is needed. _
The volume studies the meaning of secularization in sub-Saharan Africa and among the African diaspora. The first part focuses on Africa's cultural and religious traditions. The second part study secularization in contemporary Africa. The final section explores what the various secularization expressions mean for Christian discipleship in Africa. _
By virtue of Lutheranism's identity in America as an immigrant church, Lutherans are specially placed to help lead conversations about immigration in the United States today. They Are Us explores the biblical, historical, theological, and cultural foundations for Lutheran participation in an issue with important implications for this nation.
