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In this multidisciplinary interpretation of world Christianity and the changing shape of the global religious landscape, scholars consider the complex dynamics shaping Christianity's recent expansion in all parts of the globe. They view the explanations of homogenization or American cultural influence as being necessarily limited and point to the far more varied intersections of external influence and indigenous appropriation.

Prefacep. xContributorsp. xiiThe Global and the Local: Rooting Theory Into ContextsChanging Tides: Some Currents in World Christianity at the Opening of the Twenty-First Centuryp. 3Globalization, Religion, and Evangelical Christianity: A Sociological Meditation from the Third Worldp. 24Redemption and Progress: Analogies of Protestantism and Popular Culture in the Philippinesp. 52African Christianity, Globalization, and Mission: Marginalizing the Centerp. 71The Globalizing Impulse in ChristianityThe First Globalization? The Internationalization of the Protestant Missionary Movement Between the World Warsp. 93The Kingdom of God versus the Church: The Debate at the Conference of the International Missionary Council, Tambaram, 1938p. 131Domestication, Tooling, and Reinvention: Ministerial FormationNew Evangelical Universities: Cogs in a World System or Players in a New Game?p. 151The North China Theological Seminary: Evangelical Theological Education in China in the Early 1900sp. 187Local Agency: Charismatic and Pentecostal TransformationsConsuming Fire: Pandita Ramabai and the Global Pentecostal Impulsep. 207Pentecostalism and Christian Utopia in China: Jing Dianying and the Jesus Family Movement, 1921-1952p. 238Local Portraits of Christ in Africa Today: Jesus as Chief/King in Ghanaian Christianityp. 253Gendered Appropriation of Mass Media in Kenyan Christianities: A Comparison of Two Women-Led African Instituted Churches in Kenyap. 274Globalization and African New Religious Movements in Europep. 296Cultural and Socio-Political Dimensions of Global ProcessesChristianity, Ethnicity, and Structural Violence: The Northeast India Casep. 319Bibliography of Principal Secondary Sourcesp. 341Indexp. 361Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.