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Freedom of belief and Christian mission /

Christian mission takes place in a world with increasing interreligious tensions, including violence and persecution. Politics, economics, religion, ethnicity and other factors play a role in these tensions. Christians too are involved in such conflicts, sometimes as those who are persecuted and som...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gravaas, Hans Aage, 1961- (Editor ), Sauer, Christof, 1963- (Editor ), Engelsviken, Tormod (Editor ), Kamil, Maqsood, 1965- (Editor ), Jørgensen, Knud, 1942- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, UK : Regnum Books International, 2015.
Colección:Regnum Edinburgh centenary series ; v. 28.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Foreword / Heiner Bielefeldt
  • Editorial introduction: freedom of belief and Christian mission: a difficult time for freedom of religion / Knud Jørgensen
  • THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
  • Freedom of religion or belief from a human rights perspective / Tore Lindholm
  • Freedom of religion or belief from a Biblical perspective / Thomas Schirrmacher and Richard Howell
  • Global challenges and opportunities in religious liberty / Brian Grim
  • HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
  • A doxological framework for interpreting discrimination, persecution and martyrdom / Christof Sauer and Dwi Maria Handayani
  • A theology of Martyrdom / Agne Nordlander
  • Mission, persecution and martyrdom in the early church / James J. Stamoolis
  • The era of Constantine / Maximilian J. Hölzl
  • Mission, human rights and religious freedom, a relationship of light and shadow: historical, ecumenical and interreligious perspectives / Dietrich Werner
  • Christians in a minority situation Religious persecution and violence in the 21st century a global survey based on the world watch list / Frans Veerman
  • Mission and ethics of mission 2014 / Christian Troll and Thomas Schirrmacher
  • CASE STUDIES
  • Egypt: the church under pressure / Cornelis Hulsman and Ramez Atallah
  • Christians in Turkey as part of a Western conspiracy? A Turkish perspective on Christian missionaries / Wolfgang Häde
  • The Middle East: a region without a Christian future? / Hanna Josua
  • Case study: Israel and Messianic Jews / Dan Sered and Yoel Ben-David
  • The decline of ancient North African Christianity through the impact of Islam / Bernd Brandl
  • Marxism and religion: the paradox of church growth in Ethiopia, 1974-1991 / Tibebe Eshete
  • Freedom of belief and the church in Eritrea / Kjetil Tronvoll and Daniel Rezene Mekonnen
  • The Somali conundrum: Christian presence in times of peace and in times of turbulence / David W. Schenk and Peter M. Sensenig
  • Religious freedom and Christian mission: people's Republic of China / Kim-kwong Chan
  • Beset from within, beleaguered from without: North Korea's catacombs in an era of extermination / Tim A. Peters
  • Is the Silk Road still open? Central Asia: Christian mission under growing restrictions on religious freedom / Anneta Vysotskaya
  • India: religious polarisation in a Hindu context / Siga Arles
  • Mission and persecution, parallel stories: the state of religious minorities in Burma / Kristin Storaker
  • Religious freedom in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim state / Jeff Hammond
  • Faith and freedom in the land of the pure / Maqsood Kamil
  • Freedom of religion and Christian mission in Russia before and after the era of the Soviet Union / Valentin Kozhuharov
  • Western Europe: marginalisation of Christians through secularisation? / Lars Dahle
  • Religious freedom in Brazil and Latin America / Felipe Augusto Lopes Carvalho and Uziel Santana do Santos
  • MISSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES
  • Free to believe and to do mission worldwide / Hans Aage Gravaas
  • Do Christian witness and mission provoke persecution? / Jan A.B. Jongeneel
  • The missionary witness of the persecuted and the martyrs / Tite Tiénou
  • Christian Solidarity in the face of discrimination and persecution / Christof Sauer.