Introducing World Christianity

Contents.

List of Contributors.

Map of World Christianity.

Preface (Robert W. Hefner).

Acknowledgments.

Introduction (Charles E. Farhadian).

Part I: AFRICA.

1: Middle Eastern & North African Christianity: Persisting in the Lands of Islam (Heather Sharkey).

2: Christian Belongings in East Africa: Flocking to the Churches (Ben Knighton).

3: West African Christianity: Padres, Prophets, Pastors, and Pentecostals (Ogbu Kalu).

4: Christianity in Southern Africa: The Aesthetics of Well-Being (Frederick Klaits).

Part II: EUROPE.

5: Christianity in Western Europe: Mission Fields, Old and New? (Simon Coleman).

6: Christianity in Eastern Europe: A Story of Pain, Glory, Persecution, and Freedom (Peter Kuzmic).

Part III: ASIA.

7: Christianity in South Asia: Negotiating Religious Pluralism (Arun Jones).

8: Christianity in Southeast Asia: Similarity and Difference in a Culturally Diverse Region (Barbara Watson Andaya).

9: Christianity in East Asia: Evangelicalism and the March First Independence Movement in Korea (Timothy S. Lee).

Part IV: AMERICAS.

10: Christianity in North America: Changes and Challenges in a Land of Promise (Kevin J. Christiano).

11: Central America and the Caribbean: Christianity on the Periphery (Virginia Garrard-Burnett).

12: Christianity in Latin America: Changing Churches in a Changing Continent (Samuel Escobar).

13: Brazilian Charisma: Pentecostalized Christianity in Latin America’s Largest Nation (R. Andrew Chesnut).

Part V: THE PACIFIC.

14: Christianity in Australia and New Zealand: Faith and Politics in Secular Soil (Marion Maddox).

15: Christianity in Polynesia: Transforming the Islands (Ian Breward).

16: Christianity in Micronesia: The Interplay Between Church and Culture (Francis X. Hezel).

17: Christianity in Melanesia: Transforming the Warrior Spirit (Garry W. Trompf).

Conclusion: World Christianity: It's History, Spread, and Social Influence (Robert D. Woodberry).