Understanding World Christianity
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Understanding World Christianity: Mexico
By Todd HartchAlessandra Stanley, “Pope, in Mexico, Urges Moral Pressure on U.S. by Bishops,” New York Times, January 23, 1999; Alessandra Stanley, “Million Mexicans Bond with Pope at Mass,” New York Times, January 25, 1999.
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Understanding World Christianity: Russia
By Alexander S. Agadjanian, Scott M. KenworthyThere were wars with Teutonic knights, Sweden, and Poland; a few times with Germany, including the two World Wars; with France during the Napoleonic wars; and other smaller conflicts. Twice, in the early seventeenth and the early ...
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Understanding World Christianity: Eastern Africa
By Paul Kollman, Cynthia Toms SmedleyFor political scientist Paul Gifford, such behavior showed the danger of Christian piety at the ser- vice of political domination. Gifford and others also have argued that Pentecostalism encourages individualism that undermines social ...
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Understanding World Christianity: China
By Kim-kwong ChanThe first Protestant missionary to China, as stated by most his- torical books, was Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society, who came to Macao, then a Portuguese colony, in September 1807. A few days after he arrived in Macao, ...
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Understanding World Christianity: India
By Dyron B. Daughrity, Jesudas M. AthyalIgnatius Swart, The Churches and the Development Debate: Perspectives on a Fourth Generation Approach (Stellenbosch: African Sun Media, 2006), 40. 26. Ninan Koshy, A History of the Ecumenical Movement in Asia, vol.
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Understanding World Christianity: The Vision and Work of Andrew F. Walls
By Mark R. Gornik, William R. Burrows, Janice A. McLean... missionary is of singular importance. For now, the significance of Christian migrants is typically overlooked in the heated public debate about immigration. In Europe ... Self-Perception of Pentecostal/Charismatic Church Leaders from the ...