Interconnectivity, Subversion, and Healing in World Christianity

Essays in honor of Joel Carpenter

Afe Adogame, Aminta Arrington

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781350333390
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350333413
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christianity

The rise of Christianity around the world has been the impetus for much religious and social change. The interconnectivity of religious centers has resulted in theological dialogue and innovation. The subversion of long-held categories of culture, gender, race, spirituality, theology, and politics has naturally occurred along with the transgressing of borders and boundaries. Yet at the same time, there has been occasion for healing through intercultural experiences of forgiveness, peacemaking, and reconciliation.

Stimulated by the work and mentorship of Joel Carpenter, who has done much to expand the study of world Christianity less through focusing on his own research and writing, and more through amplifying the voices of others, the international contributors to this volume from all six continents promote a deeper understanding of World Christianity through the exploration of such related themes.

Whether discussing primal spirituality in northeast India, white supremacy in South Africa, evangelical women and civic engagement in Kenya, or Calvinism in Mexico, the contributors draw upon ethnographic case studies to more deeply understand interconnectivity, subversion, and healing in World Christianity. Their essays provoke a reorientation of Christian thought within the study of World Christianity, enriching the current discourse and promoting vistas for further interdisciplinary studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction (Aminta Arrington and Afe Adogame)
• 1 The Contribution of Joel A. Carpenter to World Christianity
• 2 Revive Us Again:
• 3 Academic Border Crossing and an Anthropologist’s Excursions into Research on Theology and African Christianity
• 4 Translatability and Identity:
• 5 Contextualization, Social Science Insights, and the Interpretive Task
• 6 Crucial Lessons to Construct Democracy:
• 7 Pathways for a Protestant Social Ethics in Latin America
• 8 Christianity among the Nankani in Ghana
• 9 Pyongyang and Protestantism:
• 10 Rediscovering Women Leaders in the History of Chinese Protestantism
• 11 A Dream Deferred?
• 12 African Traditional Pediatric Hospitals in Northern Nigeria:
• 13 Ante-Sacred-Space and the Interreligious Sphere in a Covid-19 ICU Room
• 14 Ubuntuism and Africa: Actualized, Misappropriated, Endangered, and Reappraised1
• 15 The Significance of Ancestors in Shaping and Understanding Christian Theology:
• 16 Primal Religious Spirituality and Charismatic Revivalism:
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Copyright Page