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The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South - Hardcover
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In his much-acclaimed Next Christendom, Jenkins called attention to the explosive growth of Christianity in parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Now he more carefully examines what these "southerners" believe and practice---from a strong dependence on the Bible to socially liberating movements.
The faith of the South, Jenkins finds, is first and foremost a biblical
faith. Indeed, in the global South, 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, until very recently a society of peasants, farmers, and small
craftsmen. 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 the global South with a
vividness and authenticity simply 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. (252 pages)
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