David R. Swartz

Facing West

American Evangelicals in an Age of World Christianity

Buch

The dramatic growth of Christianity around the world in the last century has shifted the balance of power within the faith away from the traditional strongholds of Europe and the United States to the Global South. While we typically imagine Western missionaries carrying religion to the ends of the earth, David R. Swartz shows that the line of influence has often run the other way. Evangelicals in nations such as Korea, India, and Uganda have shaped the Americanchurch from abroad. Swartz tells stories of evangelicals crossing national boundaries, offering new insights into a tradition that imagines itself as simultaneously American and part of… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-025080-5
EAN: 9780190250805
Produktnummer: 33380757
Verlag: Oxford Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm
Abbildungen: 25 black and white illustrations

Über den Autor

David R. Swartz is an associate professor of history at Asbury University. He is the author of Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism (2012).