About the Book
Table of Contents:
Foreword (Retief Müller)
Introduction (Aminta Arrington and Afe Adogame)
1. The Contribution of Joel A. Carpenter to World Christianity (Tite Tiénou, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USA)
2. Revive Us Again: A Deeper Understanding of Fundamentalism's Continuing Role in American Life (Alexandre Brasil Fonseca, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
3. Academic Border Crossing and an Anthropologist's Excursions into Research on Theology and African Christianity (Mwenda Ntarangwi, Commission for University Education, Kenya)
4. Translatability and Identity: A Korean Diasporic Exegesis on Jacob's Name Change (Won W. Lee, Calvin University, USA)
5. Contextualization, Social Science Insights, and the Interpretive Task (Melba Padilla Maggay, Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture, Philippines)
6. Crucial Lessons to Construct Democracy: From the Protestant Reformation to the Mexican Revolutions (Mariano Ávila Arteaga, Calvin Theological Seminary, USA)
7. Pathways for a Protestant Social Ethics in Latin America (Raimundo C. Barreto, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA)
8. Christianity among the Nankani in Ghana (Rose Mary Amenga-Etego, University of Ghana, Ghana)
9. Pyongyang and Protestantism Imaged as Sodom, Jerusalem, and Babylon, 1866-1945 (Sung Deuk Oak, University of California Los Angeles, USA)
10. Rediscovering Women Leaders in the History of Chinese Protestantism (Li Ma, Henry Institute, Calvin University, USA)
11. A dream deferred? The lingering effects of white supremacy on Christian young adults in South Africa today (Nadine Bowers Du Toit, Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
12. African Traditional Pediatric Hospitals in Northern Nigeria: Shapeshifting Identities and the Future of World Christianity (Matthew Michael, Nasarawa State University, Nigeria)
13. Ante-Sacred-Space and the Interreligious Sphere in a Covid-19 ICU Room (Izak Y. M. Lattu, Satya Wacana Christian University, Indonesia)
14. Ubuntuism and Africa: Actualized, Misappropriated, Endangered and Reappraised (Francis B. Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
15. The Significance of Ancestors in Shaping and Understanding Christian Theology: A Samoan Perspective (Featunai Liuaana, Congregational Christian Church Samoa/Ekalesia Fa'apotopotoga Kerisiano Samoa, Sandringham, Auckland, New Zealand)
16. Primal Religious Spirituality and Charismatic Revivalism: The Mizo Christian Experience (Lalsangkima Pachuau, Asbury Theological Seminary, USA)
Index
About the Author :
Afe Adogame is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society, and Chair of the History and Ecumenics Department, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA. He is also Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and author of The African Christian Diaspora (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).
Aminta Arrington is Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies at John Brown University, USA.
Review :
Bringing together theologians, historians, anthropologists, and practitioners from around the
world, this collection illustrates the intellectual vibrancy that exists within this field, a vibrancy Joel
Carpenter was instrumental in encouraging. With this volume, Adogame and Arrington have given
us a great resource for the diverse approaches that comprise the study of World Christianity. Every
scholar, student, and teacher interested in World Christianity will find something in this book to spur
their knowledge forward.
These essays are a fitting tribute to Joel Carpenter, the well-known facilitator and collaborator of the
study of World Christianity as an academic discipline in and outside of the USA. His perception of
God's work in the world, his administrative abilities, his financial acumen, his intellectual honesty,
and winning personality strengthen senior and younger scholars of World Christianity. Following his
precepts, the essayists explore vital expressions of World Christianity in their living contexts.
