Twentieth-century global Christianity / Mary Farrell Bednarowski, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bednarowski, Mary Farrell.

Series:

People's history of Christianity ; v. 7.

A people's history of Christianity ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--20th century.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

xx, 439 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2008]

Summary:

* Includes 50 illustrations, maps, bibliographies, and an 8-page color gallery * Explores the many aspects of lived Christianity in contemporary times

Contents:

Introduction: Multiplicity and ambiguity / Mary Farrell Bednarowski

The authority of new voices

Filipino popular Christianity / Eleazar S. Fernandez

Rural Southern Black women in the United States / Rosetta E. Ross

African women theologians / Mercy Amba Oduyoye

Hispanic women : being church in the U.S.A. / Ada María Isasi-Díaz

Traditions and transformations

Orthodoxy under communism / Paul Mojzes

Evangelicalism in North America / Mark A. Noll and Ethan R. Sanders

Pentecostal transformation in Latin America / Luis N. Rivera-Pagán

Apocalypticism in the United States / Bruce David Forbes

Catholics in China / Jean-Paul Wiest

Existential ritualizing in postmodern Sweden / Valerie DeMarinis

Innovation and authenticity

Ordinary Christians and the holocaust / Victoria J. Barnett

Ecumenism of the people / Patrick Henry

Gender and twentieth-century Christianity / Margaret Bendroth

Canadian workers and social justice / Oscar Cole-Arnal

Popular Catholic sexual ethics / Cristina L.H. Traina

Life and death in middle America / Ann M. Pederson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-430) and index.

ISBN:

9780800634179

0800634179

OCLC:

181072589