The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible
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The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible   -     By: Philip Jenkins

The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible

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"Jenkins digs deeper into the primary literature and engages firsthand a vast and colorful field to mine rich veins of Southern Christian experience, penetrating a very different worldview and providing help for Northern Christians who want to understand it better,"---America. "Meticulously researched, recommended,"---Library Journal. 272 pages, softcover. Oxford Unversity.

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Title: The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible
By: Philip Jenkins
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 272
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2008
Dimensions: 9.25 X 6.125 (inches)
Weight: 13 ounces
ISBN: 0195368517
ISBN-13: 9780195368512
Stock No: WW368512

Publisher's Description

Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins' phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Now, in this brilliant sequel, Jenkins takes a much closer look at Christianity in the global South, revealing what it is like, and what it means for the future. The faith of the South, Jenkins finds, is first and foremost a Biblical faith. Indeed, many Christians identify powerfully with the world portrayed in the New Testament--an agricultural world very much like their own, marked by famine and plague, poverty and exile. In the global South, as in the biblical world, belief in spirits and witchcraft are commonplace, and in many places--such as Nigeria, Indonesia, and Sudan--Christians are persecuted just as early Christians were. Thus the Bible speaks to them with a vividness and authenticity unavailable to most believers in the industrialized North. More
important, Jenkins shows that throughout the global South, believers are reading the Bible with fresh eyes, and coming away with new and sometimes startling interpretations. Some of their conclusions are distinctly fundamentalist, but Jenkins finds an intriguing paradox, for they are also finding ideas in the Bible that are socially liberating, especially with respect to women's rights. Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, such Christians are social activists in the forefront of a wide range of liberation movements. Anyone interested in the implications of these trends for the major denominations, for Muslim-Christian conflict, and for global politics will find The New Faces of Christianity provocative and incisive--and indispensable.

Author Bio


Philip Jenkins, one of the world's leading religion scholars joined Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion as Distinguished Professor of History and Co-Director for the Program on Historical Studies of Religion. He has published widely on contemporary religious phenomena, but is best known for the highly acclaimed The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. The book served as the basis for a highly influential cover story for Atlantic Monthly, also written by Jenkins, which garnered widespread media attention.

Editorial Reviews


"[A] witty, erudite, and provocative reflection on popular (as opposed to academic) biblical interpretation ... The New Faces is a most illuminating and inspiring book--a must read." --Catholic Historical Review


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