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  • «Pastures of Plenty»: Tracing Religio-Scapes of Prosperity Gospel in Africa and Beyond

    Edited by Andreas Heuser ...
    Series Book 161 - Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums / Etudes d'histoire interculturelle du christianisme / Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity
    Prosperity Gospel, a controversial strand in global Christianity, relates material wealth to divine blessing. Originating in American Pentecostal milieus, it is most successful in Africa. Authors from four continents present interdisciplinary, multi-sited and comparative analyses of Prosperity Gospel in Africa and beyond. Prosperity theologies adapt to varied political contexts and travel outside ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Faith-Based Organizations in Development Discourses and Practice

    Edited by Jens Koehrsen, Andreas Heuser ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
    Exploring faith-based organizations (FBOs) in current developmental discourses and practice, this book presents a selection of empirical in-depth case-studies of Christian FBOs and assesses the vital role credited to FBOs in current discourses on development.Examining the engagement of FBOs with contemporary politics of development, the contributions stress the agency of FBOs in diverse contexts ... Read more

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    What's the Role of the North American Church?

    by Paul Borthwick ...
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  • The (Un)Common Good

    How the Gospel Brings Hope to a World Divided

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  • The New Faces of Christianity

    Believing the Bible in the Global South

    by Philip Jenkins ...
    Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins's phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about the future of Christianity. In that volume, Jenkins called the world's attention to the little noticed fact that Christianity's center of gravity was moving inexorably southward, to the point that Africa may soon be home to the world ... Read more

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  • The Changing Face of World Missions

    Engaging Contemporary Issues and Trends

    by Michael Pocock, Gailyn Van Rheenen, Douglas McConnell, A. Moreau ...
    Series series Encountering Mission
    The dramatic changes that have taken place both in global society and in the church have implications for how the church does missions in the twenty-first century. These trends include the rise of postmodernism, the spiritual decline in the West and the advance of the gospel in the rest of the world, and the impact of technology on society and missions.The Changing Face of World Missions is for ... Read more

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  • Globalizing Theology

    Belief and Practice in an Era of World Christianity

    Edited by Craig Ott, Harold Netland ...
    One of the most powerful forces in the twenty-first century is the increasing phenomenon of globalization. In nearly every realm of human activity, traditional boundaries are disappearing and people worldwide are more interconnected than ever. Christianity has also become more aware of global realities and the important role of the church in non-Western countries. Church leaders must grapple with ... Read more

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    For People Tired of Serving the Wrong God

    by Joerg Rieger ...
    When we observe a tension between Jesus and Caesar, we acknowledge that a fundamental tension remains at the heart of Christianity. When this tension is poorly understood, Christians face disastrous consequences. The tension is not between religion and atheism or secularism. Nor is it between organized religion and personal spirituality. The tension is located within the heart of Christianity ... Read more

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  • Religions/Globalizations

    Theories and Cases

    by Enrique Dussel ...
    For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope. But religion also has served as the foundation for national differences, racial conflicts, class exploitation, and gender discrimination. Indeed, religious spirituality, having been transformed by contemporary economic and political events, remains both empowering and controversial. ... Read more

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  • Confronting Kingdom Challenges

    A Call to Global Christians to Carry the Burden Together

    by Peter Jensen, In Whan Kim, Charles Clayton, Diane Langberg, Peter Jones, Yusufu Turaki, David R. Haburchak, John Nicholls, Manuel Ortiz, Victor Cole, Wilson Chow, Jimmy Lin, Ron Scates ...
    It takes only one look at today's news page or one listen to the news shows to understand that, clearly, there is no shortage of kingdom challenges for the twenty-first-century church at large, for Christian organizations and agencies, or for us as individuals. In the face of such enormous problems as the rise of pagan world religions, AIDS, sexual abuse and trafficking, urban poverty, and ethnic ... Read more

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  • African Initiated Christianity and the Decolonisation of Development

    Sustainable Development in Pentecostal and Independent Churches

    Edited by Philipp Öhlmann, Wilhelm Gräb, Marie-Luise Frost ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Religion and Development
    This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to sustainable development in all its manifold forms. Moreover, this volume seeks to elucidate how these churches reshape the very notion of sustainable development and contribute to the decolonisation of development.Fostering both overarching and comparative perspectives, ... Read more

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  • The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions

    Edited by Elias Kifon Bongmba ...
    Series Book 80 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
    The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions brings together a team of international scholars to create a single-volume resource on the religious beliefs and practices of the peoples in Africa.Offers broad coverage of issues relating to African religions, considering experiences in indigenous, Christian, and Islamic traditions across the continentContributors are from a variety of fields, ... Read more

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