Jay Riley Case

An Unpredictable Gospel (eBook, PDF)

American Evangelicals and World Christianity, 1812-1920

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Produktbeschreibung

The astonishing growth of Christianity in the global South over the course of the twentieth century has sparked an equally rapid growth in studies of ''World Christianity,'' which have dismantled the notion that Christianity is a Western religion. What, then, are we to make of the waves of Western missionaries who have, for centuries, been evangelizing in the global South? Were they merely, as many have argued, agents of imperialism out to impose Western values? In An Unpredictable Gospel, Jay Case examines the efforts of American evangelical missionaries in light of this new scholarship. He argues that if they were agents of imperialism, they were poor ones. Western missionaries had a dismal record of converting non-Westerners to Christianity. The ministries that were most successful were those that empowered the local population and adapted to local cultures. In fact, influence often flowed the other way, with missionaries serving as conduits for ideas that shaped American evangelicalism. Case traces these currents and sheds new light on the relationship between Western and non-Western Christianities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199773084
• Artikelnr.: 38147864

Autorenporträt

Jay Riley Case is Associate Professor of History at Malone University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One
Chapter 1: American Baptists and the ''Wild'' Karen People of Burma
Chapter 2: The Challenge of Karen Christianity
Chapter 3: The Native Ministry in the United States
Part Two
Chapter 4: An Appalachian Revivalist in Queen Victoria's Colonies
Chapter 5: The Circuit-Riding Missionary and Gilded Age Methodism
Part Three
Chapter 6: The African American Great Awakening
Chapter 7: The AME Church and South Africa
Part Four
Chapter 8: Holiness Conversions
Chapter 9: And Ever the Twain Shall Meet
Epilogue
Notes
Index