World Christianity, (4 Volume Set)

Two-thirds of the world's Christians live in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and this new interdisciplinary Routledge Major Work brings together specialist contributions from around the world, from Europe and North America as well as from the developing world, to present a collection that truly represents World Christianity. It includes Pentecostal and various Reform churches, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, and independent churches.

The materials have been arranged around the core themes of contextualization, external and internal power, theological and ethnic marginalization, civic and ancestral identity, mission and conversion, and cover Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and South America, Oceania, and Australasia.

The collection draws on the latest work from theology, anthropology, the sociology of religion, missiology, and religious studies, enabling users to grasp the very varied presentation of the Christian faith, the socio-cultural negotiation, accommodation, renovation, and the challenges to what the collection editor calls a 'Euro-American Christian taken-for-granted' understanding of theology and praxis from 'the world within and beyond'.

Fully indexed, and containing comprehensive introductions newly written by the editor, World Christianity is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research resource.

Volume I

Part 1 :  Context and Content
Chapter 1 : Nature is to Culture as Praying is to Suing :  Legal Pluralism in an American Suburb : Journal of Legal Pluralism
Chapter 2 : From Pagan to Christian Priesthood, The Gospel is not Western :  Black Theologies from The South-West Pacific
Chapter 3 : Liturgical Adaptation, Christianity in Independent Africa
Chapter 4 : Beliefs of Catholics in Asia : Japan Mission Journal

Part 2 :  Foundations :  The Bible as Agreed Text
Chapter 5 : The Bible and Colonialism in The Global Context : Theology & Life
Chapter 6 : Polarity or Partnership? Retelling The Story of Martha and Mary from Asian Women’s Perspective : Semeia
Chapter 7 : Han-Laden Women :  Korean "Comfort Women" and Women in Judges 19–21
Chapter 8 : Hermeneutical Drama on The Colonial Stage :  Liminal Space and Creativity in Colenso’s Commentary on Romans : Journal of Theology for SouThern Africa
Chapter 9 : Challenging The Christian Monopoly on The Bible :  An Aspect of The Encounter between Christianity and Malegasy Traditional Religion in Contemporary Madagascar, African Identities and World Christianity in The Twentieth Century

Part 3 :  The Early Church in The Eastern Mediterranean
Chapter 10 : The First Urban Christians :  The Social World of The Apostle Paul
Chapter 11 : A Complete History of Early Christianity :  Taking The "Heretics" Seriously : Journal of Religious History
Chapter 12 : Office Charisma in Early Christian Ephesus : Sociology of Religion

Part 4 :  Early Christian Expansion :  From Tunis to China
Chapter 13 : Christianity and Local Culture in Late Roman Africa : Journal of Roman Studies
Chapter 14 : Mountain Constantines :  The Christianization of Aksum and Iberia : Journal of Late Antiquity
Chapter 15 : Thomas Christians and The Thomas Tradition : Christianity in India
Chapter 16 : ‘Ch’ing-Tsing :  Nestorian Tablet :  Eulogizing The Propagation of The Illustrious Religion in China, with a Preface
Chapter 17 : Paganism in The Greek World at The End of Antiquity :  The Case of Rural Anatolia and Greece : Harvard Theological Review

Part 5 :  Consolidation on Five Continents
Chapter 18 : Rural People, The Church in Kongo and The Afroamerican Diaspora (1491–1750), Transcontinental Links in The History of Non-Western Christianity
Chapter 19 : The Best Thus Far Discovered" :  The Japanese in The Letters of Francisco Xavier
Chapter 20 : Misreading and its Creativity in Sino-Western Cultural Communication at The End of The Ming Dynasty, Sino-Christian Studies in China
Chapter 21 : Crossing Gender Boundaries :  Tupi and European Women in The Eyes of Claude D’Abberville : French Colonial History

Part 6 :  Elite Assumptions and Lay Agency
Chapter 22 : The Significance of The Manuscript : A Study of a 16th Century Tagalog Manuscript on The Ten Commandments :  Its Significance and Implications
Chapter 23 : Wu Li (1632–1718) and The First Chinese Christian Poetry : Journal of The American Oriental Society
Chapter 24 : "Come vero Prencipe Catolico" :  The Capuchins and The Rulers of Soyo in The Late Seventeenth Century : Africa :  Journal of The International African Institute
Chapter 25 : Bounded Identities :  Women and Religion in Colonial Brazil, 1550–1750
Chapter 26 : The Church at Nanrantsouak :  Sébastien Rále, S.J., and The Wabanaki of Maine’s Kennebec River : Catholic Historical Review
Chapter 27 : "A Dangerous Zeal" :  Catholic Missions to Slaves in The French Antilles, 1635–1800 : French Historical Studies
Chapter 28 :  Lübeck Prophet in Local and LuTheran Context, Popular Religion in Germany and Central Europe, 1400–1800

Part 7 :  Inter-Continental Enlightenment?
Chapter 29 : Christian Virgins in Eighteenth-Century Sichuan, Christianity in China :  From The Eighteenth Century to The Present
Chapter 30 : Conversations in Tarangambadi :  Caring for The Self in Early Eighteenth Century South India : Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and The Middle East
Chapter 31 : Conversion, Identity, and The Indian Missionary : Early American Literature

Volume II

Part 8 :  Nation, State, and Person in Nineteenth-Century World Christianity
Chapter 32 : The Parsis of Bombay and Christian Conversion, 1839–45 : Journal of The American Academy of Religion
Chapter 33 : Cultivation, Christianity and Colonialism :  Towards a New African Genesis, The London Missionary Society in SouThern Africa
Chapter 34 : Catholics in Protest :  Lower-Caste Christianity in Early Colonial Madras : Studies in History
Chapter 35 : Christianity without Civilization :  Anglican Sources for an Alternative Nineteenth-Century Mission Methodology : Journal of Religious History

Part 9 :  Gender, Education, and Conversion
Chapter 36 : Missionary Maternalism :  Gendered Images of The Holy Spirit Sisters (SSpS) in Colonial New Guinea, Gendered Missions :  Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice
Chapter 37 : Young Converts :  Christian Missions, Gender and Youth in Onitsha, Nigeria 1880–1929 : Anthropological Quarterly
Chapter 38 : Devils, Familiars and Spaniards :  Spheres of Power and The Supernatural in The World of Seberina Candelaria and Her Village in Early 19th-Century Philippines : Journal of Social History

Part 10 :  Religion, Ethnicity, and The Nation
Chapter 39 : Conversion by Affiliation :  The History of The Karo Batak Protestant Church : American Ethnologist
Chapter 40 : The Making of an Ethnic Collectivity :  Irish Catholic Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Christchurch : Journal of Religious History
Chapter 41 : The Limits of Religious Ascription :  Baptized Tatars and The Revision of "Apostasy", 1840s–1905 : Russian Review
Chapter 42 : Religion and Modernization in 19th-Century Greece : Social Compass

Part 11 :  Local Agents of Mission
Chapter 43 : Indians and The Breakdown of The Spanish Mission System in California : Ethnohistory
Chapter 44 : Hidden but Real :  The Vital Contribution of Biblewomen to The Rapid Growth of Korean Protestantism, 1892–1945 : Women’s Historical Review
Chapter 45 : Kimbanguism and The Question of Syncretism in Zaïre, Religion in Africa :  Experience and Expression

Part 12 :  Roman Catholic Fields of Engagement with Pentecostals
Chapter 46 : In The Absence of Priests :  Young Women as Apostles to The Poor, Chile 1922–1932 : The Americas
Chapter 47 : Reinterpreting Chilean Pentecostalism : Social Compass
Chapter 48 : Glossolalia and Possession Among Pentecostal Groups of The Mezzogiorno : Annales

Part 13 :  Negotiating Religious and Political Competition
Chapter 49 : The Lord of Heaven versus Jesus Christ :  Christian Sectarian Violence in Late-Nineteenth-Century South China : Positions
Chapter 50 : Revolutionary Anticlericalism and Hegemonic Processes in an Andalusian Town, August 1936 : American Ethnologist
Chapter 51 : Orthodox Mission in Tropical Africa : Missionalia
Chapter 52 : The Spirit and The Scapular :  Pentecostal and Catholic Interactions in NorThern Nyanga District, Zimbabwe in The 1950s and Early 1960s : Journal of SouThern African Studies

Volume III

Part 14 :  Living Texts
Chapter 53 : Coptic Cultural Nationalism : Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt :  The Century-Long Struggle for Coptic Equality
Chapter 54 : Ritual, History and Identity in Goa, Rituals in and Unstable World :  Contingency, Hybridity, Embodiment
Chapter 55 : Fellowship in Contemporary Religion and Ethics :  Report on an Oral Enquiry into The Beliefs of Village People in The Catholic Diocese of Zhouzi : China Study Journal
Chapter 56 : Imitation of Christ in Bicol, Philippines : Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute

Part 15 :  Discerning Theology in Context
Chapter 57 : The Status of Christian Women in Kerala, Women in Indian Religions
Chapter 58 : Contested Masculine Spaces in Greek Orthodoxy : Compass
Chapter 59 : Gender and Change in an African Immigrant Church :  An Anthropologist and a (Former) Prophetess Reflect, African Immigrant Religions in America
Chapter 60 : Faith, Fashion and Family :  Religion, AesThetics, Identity and Social Organization in Strassbourg
Chapter 61 : The Feminization and Professionalization of Ordained Ministry within The Ma’ohi Protestant Church in French Polynesia, Women and Ordination in The Christian Churches :  International Perspectives

Part 16 :  Relating to Place
Chapter 62 : Experiencing Spirit :  Religious Processes of Interaction and Unification in Aboriginal Australia, Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change
Chapter 63 : Religion as Resistance in Jamaican Peasant Life :  The Baptist Church, Revival Worldview and Rastafari Movement, Rastafari and OTher African-Caribbean Worldviews
Chapter 64 : Structural Obstacles to Grassroots Pastoral Practice :  The Case of a Base Community in Urban Brazil : Sociology of Religion
Chapter 65 : Inuit Pentecostal and Evangelical Movements in The Canadian Eastern Arctic :  The Case of The Healing The Land Rituals Developed by The Canada Awakening Ministries
Chapter 66 : "Culture" as a Tool and an Obstacle :  Missionary Encounters in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan : Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute
Chapter 67 : The Faith-Healers of The Assemblies of God in Burkina Faso :  Taking Responsibility for Diseases Related to "Living TogeTher" : Social Compass

Part 17 :  Texts Biblical and Local
Chapter 68 : Conversion to Protestantism Among Urban Immigrants in Taiwan : Sociology of Religion
Chapter 69 : Christianity as a New Religion :  Charisma, Minor Founders, and Indigenous Movements, Religion and Society in Modern Japan
Chapter 70 : Jesus Christ as Trickster in The Religion of Contemporary Bushmen, The Games of Gods and Men
Chapter 71 : The Fundamentals of Fertility :  Cosmology and Conversion in a Southwestern Nigerian Town : Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute

Part 18 :  Internal and External Structures
Chapter 72 : The Hidden Sphere of Religious Searches in The Soviet Union :  Independent Religious Communities in Leningrad from The 1960s to The 1970s : Sociology of Religion
Chapter 73 : The Persistence of Apocalypticism Within a Denominationalizing Sect :  The Apocalyptic Fringe Groups of Seventh-Day Adventism, Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem :  Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements
Chapter 74 : Native Evangelism in Central Mexico : Ethnology
Chapter 75 : American Evangelicalism in Zimbabwe : Christianity and Hegemony

Part 19 :  Cross-National Pentecostalism Past and Present
Chapter 76 : "HeaThendom" and The Powers of Darkness :  On The Role of The Devil in The Preaching of The Missionaries of The Norddeutsche Missionsgesellschaft in The Nineteenth Century and The Contemporary African Churches : Trinity Journal of Church and Theology
Chapter 77 : The Transnationalisation of Brazilian Pentecostalism :  The Universal Church of The Kingdom of God, Between Babel and Pentecost :  Transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America
Chapter 78 : Certain Knowledge :  The Encounter of Global Fundamentalism and Local Christianity in Urban South India, The Pursuit of Certainty :  Religious and Cultural Formulations
Chapter 79 : Joana’s Story :  Syncretism at The Actor’s Level, Reinventing Religions :  Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and The Americas

Volume IV

Part 20 :  CloThed for Glory :  Dress for Christians
Chapter 80 : Nakedness and Clothing in Early Encounters Between Aboriginal People of Central America, Missionaries and Anthropologists : Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
Chapter 81 : To Honor Her Head :  Hats as a Symbol of Women’s Position in Three Evangelical Churches in Edinburgh, Scotland, Women in Ritual and Symbolic Roles

Part 21 :  Church within Walls
Chapter 82 : The Immediacy of Eternity :  Time and Transformation in a Roman Catholic Convent : Religion
Chapter 83 : Women Living Between The Church and The State :  A Case Study of Catholic Women Religious in Contemporary Rural China, Christianity and Chinese Society and Culture :  The First International Young Scholars Symposium

Part 22 :  Church Beyond Walls :  The Performance of Pilgrimage
Chapter 84 : Pilgrimage and Patronage in Brazil :  A Paradigm for Social Relations and Religious Diversity : Luso-Brazilian Review
Chapter 85 : Division and Demolition at The Tomb of a Beloved Saint :  The Evolving Character of an Orthodox Christian Pilgrim Centre in India : Culture and Religion
Chapter 86 : Performing Pilgrimage :  Walsingham and The Ritual Construction of Irony, Ritual, Performance, Media
Chapter 87 : Persistent Peregrination :  From Sun Dance to Catholic Pilgrimage among Canadian Prairie Indians, Sacred Journeys :  The Anthropology of Pilgrimage
Chapter 88 : Bernard Mizeki :  Missionary Saints and The Creation of Christian Communities : Yale Divinity School Library Occasional Publication
Chapter 89 : John Wesley Slept Here :  American Shrines and American Methodists

Part 23 :  Performing Christianity
Chapter 90 : Syncretic Objects :  Material Culture of Syncretism among The Paiwan Catholics, Taiwan : Journal of Material Culture
Chapter 91 : Catholic Hymns of Michigan Indians : Anthropological Quarterly
Chapter 92 : Uduk Faith in a Five-Note Scale :  Mission Music and The Spread of The Gospel, Vernacular Christianity :  Essays in The Social Anthropology of Religion Presented to Godfrey Lienhardt
Chapter 93 : "Almost Persuaded Now to Believe" :  Gospel Songs in New Zealand Evangelical Theology and Practice : Journal of Religious History
Chapter 94 : Women as Religious and Political Praise Singers within African Institutions :  The Case of The CCAP Blantyre Synod and Political Parties in Malawi : Women and Music
Chapter 95 : Dalit Theology in Tamil Christian Folk Music :  A Transformative Liturgy By James Theophilus Appavoo, Popular Christianity in India :  Riting Between The Lines
Chapter 96 : Christianity in Indian Dance Forms

Part 24 :  Issues for Christianity in The Twenty-First Century
Chapter 97 : Beyond Christendom :  Protestant-Catholic Distinctions in Coming Global Christianity : Religion
Chapter 98 : Religion and The Awakening of Indigenous People in Latin America : Social Compass