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This volume deals with the lived experiences and expressions of Christians in diverse communities across the globe. Christian communities do not live in a vacuum but in complex, diverse social-cultural contexts; within wider communities of different faith and social realities. Power, identity and co...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Adogame, Afeosemime U. (Afeosemime Unuose), 1964- (Editor ), McLean, Janice A. (Editor ), Jeremiah, Anderson H. M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Regnum Books International, ©2014.
Colección:Regnum Edinburgh centenary series ; v. 21.
Temas:
Church and the world.
Globalization > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Missions > Theory.
Christianity and culture.
Église et le monde.
Missiologie.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Afe Adogame, Janice McLean, Anderson Jeremiah
  • PART ONE: CHURCH AND SOCIETY
  • Poverty alleviation: issues and challenges to the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria / Elijah Obinna
  • An ecclesiological reflection in the context of powerlessness and vulnerability / Danilo-Azuela Borlado, Wan Chai
  • Pentecostal social engagement: excerpts from around the world / Harold D. Hunter
  • PART TWO: CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIO-POLITICAL ACTION
  • Religion and reconciliation processes in the African diaspora / Frieder Ludwig
  • Churches and condoms: how Christian faith-based organizations are preventing HIV/AIDS in developing countries / Matthew Clarke, Juliette Lumbers
  • PART THREE: CHRISTIANITY AND CULTURE
  • Who are Kakure Kirishitan? Issues of communal identity within hidden Christian Japan / Kirk Sandvig
  • Fragments and the whole: an insight into the deliberations of missionary organizations in South India and their impact / Anderson H.M. Jeremiah
  • Tomorrow in trauma: children in a bleeding world / Daniel Ndukwe
  • PART FOUR: MISSION, MIGRATION, DIASPORA AND ETHNICITY
  • Filipino diaspora kingdom workers: a case study of diaspora missiology in action / Sadiri Joy Tira, Enoch Wan
  • The transculturalization and the transnationalization of the government of 12: from Seoul to Bogota to Charlotte, North Carolina / Philip Wingeier-Rayo
  • Learning from missionaries: lessons for secular development practitioners / Matthew Clarke, John Donnelly
  • PART FIVE: CONFERENCE REPORTS
  • Urban Mission Development Project, UK: report to E2010 Commission VII from UK Urban Mission July 2009 / Erica Dunmow
  • East African Consultation / Philomena Mwaura.

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