ISG 47: Christianity Worldwide 1800 to 2000
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Paperback / softback
£12.99
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
ISBN: 9780281086122
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 16/12/2021
Width: 13.8 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
In 1800 most Christians lived in Europe or North America, but by 2000 they came from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania.
ISG 47: Christianity Worldwide 1800-2000 brings together voices from around the world to explore how Christianity grew and developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Writers and theologians from each region of the globe lay out the history of Christianity between 1800 and 2000 in their part of the world, showing how repeatedly it was local believers who drove the changes in those centuries, both in sharing faith and adapting it to their particular culture – a Chinese Bible translator, Liberian prophet or Korean Bible woman is as significant as a British missionary or Italian pope.
These histories include not only the wide range of European-founded denominations, but also regional innovations across the globe and particularly Pentecostalism, to give a comprehensive overview of Christianity’s development worldwide from the 1800s through to the end of the twentieth century.
Tracing connections and themes across continents, ISG 47: Christianity Worldwide 1800-2000 is ideal for students of theology and history learning about the development of Christianity around the globe, especially in the global south. Part of the SPCK International Study Guide series, it will leave you with a thorough understanding of how Christianity has changed and grown across the world over the last two centuries.
List of illustrations vi
List of contributors vii
The SPCK International Study Guides: purpose and access xi
Introduction 1
Jehu J. Hanciles
1 Western Europe and North America 8
Mark Noll
2 Africa in the nineteenth century 25
Louise Pirouet (with revisions by Jehu J. Hanciles)
3 Africa in the twentieth century 46
Louise Pirouet and Jehu J. Hanciles
4 North-East Asia 67
Julie C. Ma and Angus Crichton
5 The Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka and Nepal 91
George Oommen
6 South-East Asia 116
Chansamone Saiyasak
7 Latin America and the Caribbean 135
Pablo Dieros and Jehu J. Hanciles
8 Eastern Europe and Russia 160
Valerii Alikin
9 The Middle East (or South-West Asia and Egypt) 179
Issa Diab
10 The South Pacific 202
Hugh Morrison
11 Pentecostal and Charismatic movements 219
Allan H. Anderson
Afterword: Towards world Christian history 233
Angus Crichton
Illustrations
Figures
1 The growth in the membership of Roman Catholic and
Protestant churches worldwide since 1800 5
2 The growth in the number of Christians in relation to global population since 1800 6
Maps
Europe 9
North America 10
Africa 25
Asia 67
South America 135
Central America 147
Caribbean 152
Europe 161
South-West Asia and Egypt 180
South Pacific 202
Tables
1 The formal arrival of Christianity in named Pacific countries 204
2 CMS European missi