01853cam a22002774a 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003201000170007302000220009004000180011204200080013004300120013805000240015008200160017410000210019024500830021126000550029430000260034950400640037550500140043950501360045352000130058952009200060265000530152213281016AUA.120160114155526.0030721s2003    miu      b    001 0 eng    a  2003060010  a0802821642 (pbk.)  aDLCcDLCdDLC  apcc  ad------00aBR 115.U6bS26 200300a270.8/32221 aSanneh, Lamin O.10aWhose religion is Christianity? :bthe gospel beyond the West /cLamin Sanneh.  aGrand Rapids, Mich. :bW.B. Eerdmans Pub.,cc2003.  axii, 138 p. ;c21 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 131-136) and index.  aContents:  aWind blows where it wills: Christianity as a world religion --
Christianity reappropriated: Bible and its mother tongue variations.  aSummary:  aThe author seeks to demonstrate that the diversity and variety of language and cultural expression in the Christian community is not a divisive factor, but rather it is demonstrated to be the strength of the faith as a universal human phenomenon, freely accessible to all cultures and languages equally, appropriated and adapted and reexpressed by each in a unity beyond their individual diversity. For instance, including the indigenous names for God in Bible translation has pioneered a strategic alliance with the local concepts of religion, thus making it easier for the indigenous people to transfer from their previous religion to Christianity. Coupled with this is the principle of free and informed choice, rather than the coerced conversion we have seen so often in the history of other religions and cultural imperialisms, notably the movement of Islam across the geography of the world and its cultures.  0aChristianityzDeveloping countriesvMiscellanea.