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Understanding World Christianity: China
The Understanding World Christianity series is organized geographically, by nation and region. Noted experts, in most cases native to the area of focus, present a balanced history of Christianity and a detailed discussion of the faith as it is lived today. This volume on China is an ideal introduction for anyone who wishes to know how Christianity is lived in the Chinese context.
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Understanding World Christianity: Mexico
Understanding World Christianity is a series devoted to exploring lived Christianity in diverse global contexts and regions. Noted experts present a balanced history of Christianity and a detailed discussion of the six key 'intersections' of Christianity in a given context including the historical, denominational, socio-political, geographical, biographical, and theological settings. Understanding World Christianity: Mexico is an ideal introduction for anyone who wishes to know how Christianity is lived in the Mexican context.
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Understanding World Christianity: India
Rich in experience and knowledge, Daughrity and Athyal introduce readers to the vibrancy of Indian Christianity like no other authors have done before.
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Understanding World Christianity: Russia
In a world where Christianity is growing everywhere but the West, the Understanding World Christianity series offers a fresh, readable orientation to Christianity around the world. Understanding World Christianity: Russia offers a compelling glimpse into the vibrant and complex picture of Christianity in the Russian context. It is ideal for students, mission leaders, and any others who wish to understand Christianity in the Russian context.
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Understanding World Christianity: Eastern Africa
In this exciting volume, Paul Kollman and Cynthia Toms Smedley offer an introduction to Eastern African Christianity that has been desperately needed by scholars, students, and interested readers alike. Short, engaging chapters help readers understand the complexity of Christianity in the region and broaden their understanding of the region itself. Readers will understand the interplay of Christianity and culture, and will see how geography, borders, economics, and other factors influence Christian faith.
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How Christianity Came to China: A Brief History
Foreign missionaries who served in China ran the gamut of Christians, with differing views of their religion and differing ideas of how to spread it. When all foreign missionaries were forced to leave China in 1949 many thought their effort had been in vain. Yet some scholars predict that soon China will be the country with the largest Christian population in the world. Kathleen L. Lodwick tells the story of Christianity in China. It's essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the contemporary phenomena that is Christianity in China.
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To Whom Does Christianity Belong?: Critical Issues in World Christianity
To Whom Does Christianity Belong? is a question that is asked throughout the world today. In this exciting volume, an anchor to the Understanding World Christianity series, Dyron B. Daughrity helps readers map out the major changes that have taken place in recent years in the world's largest religion.
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Understanding World Christianity
Christianity is a global religion! It’s an obvious fact, but one often missed or ignored in too many books and conversations. In a world where Christianity is growing everywhere but the West, the Understanding World Christianity series offers a fresh, readable orientation to Christianity around the world.
Understanding World Christianity is organized geographically, by nation and region. Noted experts, in most cases native to the area of focus, present a balanced history of Christianity and a detailed discussion of the faith as it is lived today. Each volume addresses six key ‘intersections’ of Christianity in a given context:
- Historical
- Denominational
- Socio-political
- Geographical
- Biographical
- Theological
Accessible in tone and brief in length, the volumes in Understanding World Christianity are ideal introductions for students, mission leaders, and any others who wish to know how Christianity influences, and is influenced by, a given national context.
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In this exciting volume, Dyron B. Daughrity and Jesudas M. Athyal offer an introduction to Indian Christianity that has been desperately needed by scholars, students, and interested readers alike. Rich in experience and knowledge, Daughrity and Athyal introduce readers to the vibrancy of Indian Christianity like no other authors have done before.
Series Editor
Watch series editor, Dyron Daughrity, introduce the Understanding World Christianity series!
Look for these upcoming titles in the series!
Understanding World Christianity: China
Kim-kwong Chan, Universities Service Center for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Understanding World Christianity: Russia
Alexander Agadjanian, Russian State University for the Humanities; Scott Kenworthy, Miami University of Ohio
