Beyond Christendom: Globalization, African Migration and the Transformation of the West

by Jehu J. Hanciles

Overview

Hanciles does yeoman work in part one synthesizing studies on the impact of globalization, revealing that its outcomes will likely not be determined by the Euro-American heartlands that sparked this movement. Instead, in parts two he shows that migration in general is having an enormous effect on shaping a new world order, and in part three, "Mobile Faith," he advances the case for the migration of Christians as carrying within it the seeds of renewal for the whole church and also the potential to reshape church-state and religion and culture relations globally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570757907
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Pages:	430
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jehu J. Hanciles is Professor of World Christianity and director of the World Christianity Program at Candler School of Theology (Emory University). He Previously served on the faculty of Fuller Graduate School of Intercultural Studies as associate professor, history of Christianity and globalization, and director of the Center for Missiological Research. Originally from Sierra Leone, he studied in Scotland and taught in Zimbabwe before coming to the U.S. He is author of Euthanasia of a Mission: African Church Autonomy in a Colonial Context (Praeger, 2002) and Beyond Christendom: Globalization, African Migration and the Transformation of the West (Orbis, 2008); and editor of The Twentieth Century: Traditions in a Global Context, vol. 4 of The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions (Oxford, 2019). He has also published numerous articles and book chapters mainly on issues related to the history of Christianity (the African experience in particular) and globalization. His current research interests center around migration and religious encounter.

Editorial Reviews

"In a series of wide-ranging reflections on globalization and the currents driving it, Hanciles looks at emerging demographic flows and fault lines, arguing that these currents find their confluence in the transformation of the West by Christianized immigrant groups from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. His book is a rallying call for a fresh missionary engagement with global population shifts and a welcome contribution to studies in the field." -Lamin Sanneh, Yale Divinity School

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