02571cam a2200265 a 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003201000170007302000380009004000180012805000240014608200160017024501420018626000650032830000270039349000490042050400640046950500140053350516230054765000180217070000160218870000190220485600820222315028721AUA.120160120132750.0071001s2008 miu b 001 0 eng  a 2007040634 a9780802862426 (pbk. : alk. paper) aDLCcDLCdDLC00aBR 145.3b.I57 200800a270.8/322200aInterpreting contemporary Christianity :bglobal processes and local identities /cedited by Ogbu U. Kalu ; associate editor, Alaine Low. aGrand Rapids, Mich. :bWilliam B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.,cc2008. axiv, 365 p. ;c24 cm.0 aStudies in the history of Christian missions aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 341-360) and index. aContents: a Changing tides : some currents in world Christianity at the opening of the twenty-first century / Ogbu U. Kalu -- Globalization, religion, and evangelical Christianity : a sociological meditation from the Third World / Paul Freston -- Redemption and progress : analogies of Protestantism and popular culture in the Philippines / Brian M. Howell and Anthony dela Fuente -- African Christianity, globalization, and mission : marginalizing the center / Jehu J. Hanciles -- The first globalization? : the internationalization of the Protestant missionary movement between the world wars / Dana L. Robert -- The kingdom of God versus the church : the debate at the Conference of the International Missionary Council, Tambaram, 1938 / Sebastian C.H. Kim -- New evangelical universities : cogs in a world system or players in a new game? / Joel Carpenter -- The North China Theological Seminary : evangelical theological education in China in the early 1900s / Kevin Xiyi Yao -- Consuming fire : Pandita Ramabai and the global Pentecostal impulse / Edith L. Blumhofer -- Pentecostalism and Christian utopia in China : Jing Dianying and the Jesus Family Movement, 1921-1952 / Feiya Tao -- Local portraits of Christ in Africa today : Jesus as chief/king in Ghanaian Christianity / Diane Stinton -- Gendered appropriation of mass media in Kenyan Christianities : a comparison of two women-led African Instituted Churches in Kenya / Philomena Njeri Mwaura -- Globalization and African New Religious Movements in Europe / Afe Adogame -- Christianity, ethnicity, and structural violence : the northeast India case / John Parratt. 0aChristianity.1 aKalu, Ogbu.1 aLow, Alaine M.413Table of contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip082/2007040634.html