The focus of this volume is to delve behind the global phenomenon of Christianity to glimpse some of the rich and dynamic lifeways within it.
xx, 439 p.
25 cm.
ill.
Introduction: Multiplicity and ambiguity / Mary Farrell Bednarowski --
Listening to new voices --
The Filipino laity / Eleazar Fernandez --
Black women in the United States / Rosetta Ross --
African women theologians / Mercy Amba Oduyoye --
Hispanic women in the United States / Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz --
Traditions and transformation --
Orthodoxy under communism / Paul Mojzes --
Evangelicalism in the West / Mark A. Noll and Ethan R. Sanders --
Pentecostalism in Latin America / Luis Rivera-Pagan --
Apocalypticism in North America / Bruce Forbes --
Catholicism in China / Jean-Paul Wiest --
Secularism in western Europe / Valerie DeMarinis --
Innovation and authenticity --
Ecumenism of the people / Patrick Henry --
Gendering the faith / Margaret Bendroth --
Canadian workers' social justice / Oscar Cole-Arnal --
Expanding sexual ethics / Christina L.H. Traina --
Life and death in middle America / Ann Pederson.