BOOK The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South by Philip Jenkins free full version reader audio link

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Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkinss phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about the future of Christianity. In that volume, Jenkins called the worlds attention to the little noticed fact that Christianitys center of gravity was moving inexorably southward, to the point that Africa may soon be home to the worlds largest Christian populations. Now, in this brilliant sequel, Jenkins takes a much closer look at Christianity in the global South, revealing what it is like, and what it means for the future. The faith of the South, Jenkins finds, is first and foremost a biblical faith. Indeed, in the global South, many Christians identify powerfully with the world portrayed in the New Testament--an agricultural world very much like their own, marked by famine and plague, poverty and exile, until very recently a society of peasants, farmers, and small craftsmen. In the global South, as in the biblical world, belief in spirits and witchcraft are commonplace, and in many places--such as Nigeria, Indonesia, and Sudan--Christians are persecuted just as early Christians were. Thus the Bible speaks to the global South with a vividness and authenticity simply unavailable to most believers in the industrialized North. More important, Jenkins shows that throughout the global South, believers are reading the Bible with fresh eyes, and coming away with new and sometimes startling interpretations. Some of their conclusions are distinctly fundamentalist, but Jenkins finds an intriguing paradox, for they are also finding ideas in the Bible that are socially liberating, especially with respect to womens rights. Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, such Christians are social activists in the forefront of a wide range of liberation movements. Its hard to overstate how interesting, how eye-opening, how frequently surprising (and sometimes disturbing) Jenkins findings are. Anyone interested in the implications of these trends for the major denominations, for Muslim-Christian conflict, and for global politics will find The New Faces of Christianity provocative and incisive--and indispensable.
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BOOK The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South by Philip Jenkins free full version reader audio link

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