David Lindenfeld

World Christianity and Indigenous Experience

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book will appeal to students of world history and religious studies, as well as the general reader. It depicts World Christianity from the perspectives of indigenous peoples, with chapters on colonial Latin America, Native North America, Africa and the diaspora, the Middle East, India, East Asia and the Pacific.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 764g
• ISBN-13: 9781108831567
• ISBN-10: 1108831567
• Artikelnr.: 60745127

Autorenporträt

David Lindenfeld is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, Louisiana State University. He has been researching cross-cultural religious interactions worldwide for nearly two decades and is co-editor, with Miles Richardson, of Beyond Conversion and Syncretism: Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000 (2011). Lindenfeld is active member of the World History Association and the Yale-Edinburgh Group on Missionary Christianity.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Colonial Latin America: the Nahua (Aztecs) and their neighbors
3. Native Norh America: the colonial Northeast, the Cherokee, and the Sioux
4. Sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora
5. The Middle East
6. India
7. East Asia: China, Japan, Korea
8. The Pacific
Conclusion: reflections on concentrated and diffuse spirituality.