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Auteur(s) : Case, Jay Riley
Titre(s) : An unpredictable Gospel [Texte imprimé] : American evangelicals and world Christianity, 1812-1920 / Jay Riley Case
Publication : New York : Oxford University Press, c2012
Description matérielle : xi, 311 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm
Comprend : American Baptists and the "wild" Karen people of Burma ; The challenge of Karen Christianity
; The native ministry in the United States ; An Appalachian revivalist in Queen
Victoria's colonies ; The circuit-riding missionary and gilded age Methodism ; The
African-American Great Awakening ; The AME Church and South Africa ; Holiness conversions
; And ever the twain shall meet.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-300) and index
This work challenges the conception of evangelical missionaries as cultural imperialists.
The astonishing growth of Christianity in the global South over the course of the
twentieth century has sparked an equally rapid growth in studies of ''World Christianity,''
which have dismantled the notion that Christianity is a Western religion. What, then,
are we to make of the waves of Western missionaries who have, for centuries, been
evangelizing in the global South? Were they merely, as many have argued, agents of
imperialism out to impose Western values? In An Unpredictable Gospel, Jay Case examines
the efforts of American evangelical missionaries in light of this new scholarship.
He argues that if they were agents of imperialism, they were poor ones. Western missionaries
had a dismal record of converting non-Westerners to Christianity. The ministries that
were most successful were those that empowered the local population and adapted to
local cultures. In fact, influence often flowed the other way, with missionaries serving
as conduits for ideas that shaped American evangelicalism. Case traces these currents
and sheds new light on the relationship between Western and non-Western Christianities.
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Sujet(s) : Missions américaines -- 19e siècle
Églises protestantes -- Missions -- 19e siècle
Christianisme et culture -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199772322 (hc.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0199772320 (hc.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9780199772315 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0199772312 (pbk.) (alk. paper)
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