{"title":"The Intercultural Hermeneutics of Lamin Sanneh","authors":"C. Orji","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The article examines the work of African historian Lamin Sanneh (1942–2019) on Christianity and world cultural process with a view to teasing out his intercultural hermeneutics and highlighting his contribution to World Christianity. Sanneh was one of the few historians and scholars of religion to recognize that the Enlightenment induced Christianity detached the notion of culture from Christian religious mooring. He also drew attention to the fact that Christianity has been used as a metanarrative to foster exclusion and therefore developed an intercultural hermeneutics as a counterforce. He insisted correctly that the Gospel of Christ, in its purest form, comes unclothed in a cultural garb. Thus, this paper argues that it was in fostering a historically-minded view of culture through emphasis on Bible translation and vernacular language that Sanneh resolved the dichotomy between religion and culture and made his major contribution to World Christianity.","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89679109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crossroads of Culture: Christianity, Ancestral Spiritualism, and the Search for Wellness in Northern Malawi, by Eric Lindland.","authors":"Rune Flikke","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0180","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85507387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Church Is a Solution Centre”: Strategies of Migrant Churches in Switzerland in Overcoming Hardships","authors":"C. Hoffmann","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0023","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Migrant churches in Switzerland are an increasingly emerging, heterogenous phenomenon at the fringes of the Swiss church landscape. Migrant churches are mostly founded and visited by migrants, in many cases asylum seekers, who sometimes find themselves in precarious situations. Moreover, migrant churches cannot rely on government finances like state-affiliated churches in Switzerland do. This article provides a case study on two migrant churches. Both belong to the Pentecostal-charismatic family of World Christianity. The case study seeks to describe what difficulties the churches and their members face and how they deal with these. The coping strategies to overcome challenges are mostly not targeting the problems themselves but trying to regulate the negative emotional conditions the problems give rise to. In my sample churches, this is mainly achieved through a specific charismatic reinterpretation of the situation, where trust in God’s guidance and his providence are given more weight than prosperity promises.","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":"29 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77881788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man, by Daryl R. Ireland.","authors":"B. Wong","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0182","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":"142 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88957126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Ancient Rites of China”: Yan Mo on Ancestral Rites during the Chinese Rites Controversy","authors":"Xueying Wang","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0090","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 One of the key issues during the Chinese Rites Controversy was Chinese ancestral rites. Deeming ancestral rites idolatrous, mendicant missionaries advocated banning them; the Jesuits accommodated ancestral rites under certain conditions. The defense provided by the Jesuits focused on the ancestral rites being civil and political, and therefore not idolatrous. This article examines the views of Yan Mo 嚴謨 a lower-level Confucian Catholic literatus. Yan’s defense of the ancestral rites differs from the Jesuits in that Yan focused on the intrinsic value of ancestral rites as cultural practices, which he called “ancient rites of China.” Yan consulted Confucian canons and pointed out that performing the ancestral rites is an act of filial piety that, in the context of Chinese culture, is so embedded in the Chinese culture that the rites cannot be substituted by Christian practices such as praying the rosary or giving alms.","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":"30 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88293602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neighbors: Christians and Muslims Building Community, by Deanna Ferree Womack.","authors":"Byung Ho Choi","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0184","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78571440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minjung in the Mission House: How Korean Christians in the Democratization Movement Encountered a Theology for the Postcolonial Era","authors":"D. Kim-Cragg","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0047","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Minjung theology, developed by Christians involved in the South Korean Democratization Movement, has often been described as a Korean liberation theology but its connections to and significance for the Missionary Enterprise have rarely been explored. Analyzing the archival data related to its development in a Canadian missionary house, this article explores the historical influences that shaped minjung theology, with a focus on its relationship to the Canadian mission in Korea. The history of this Korean expression of the Christian faith sheds light on its postcolonial character and the enduring significance of minjung theology. Seen through a postcolonial historical lens, this article shows the relevance of minjung theology for the present by evaluating its connection to and influence on the Canadian church with which it was closely associated.","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76147410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christian Responses to Conflict in Burma","authors":"Pum Za Mang","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0070","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Political violence, ethnic war, and religious conflict have gravely rocked the modern state of Burma ever since 1948 when it became independent. The Burmese perhaps know better than most what it feels like to be devastated by racial hatred and religious intolerance as they have seen the deadly consequences of unchecked ethno-religious bigotry. They endeavor in spite of this to make a better future for the coming generation, and Burmese Christians, as responsible citizens, make a relatively considerable contribution to this national collective attempt. Few scholars following events in Burma, though, pay sufficient attention to how Christians respond to this politically complex and tense situation. This article, thus, carefully navigates the historical trajectories of toxic ethno-religious conflict and political violence and closely explores some role Christians seemingly prudently play in positive reaction to this tough reality.","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":"15 12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86946864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Megachurch Studies: The State, Evolution, and Maturation of a Field","authors":"Chad Bauman","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.12.1.0113","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Over the past decade, the field of megachurch studies has matured and become global in its scope and orientation. The number of texts produced on megachurches since 2010 is nearly triple the number produced before that date, and many of the newest texts decenter North America. Megachurch studies today, therefore, is a properly international and cosmopolitan field. The article has four interrelated aims: (1) to provide a thorough overview of major themes and work in megachurch studies, with special emphasis on works emerging in the last decade; (2) to update two excellent state-of-the-field reviews by Stephen Ellingson (in 2008 and 2010); (3) to make visible the now thoroughly global nature of the field by attending fully to its international focus, something done only briefly and tentatively in Ellingson’s reviews; and (4) to develop (in the ample footnotes) something of thorough bibliography of key texts in the field of megachurch studies.","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76743184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christian Women in Chinese Society: The Anglican Story","authors":"Christina Li","doi":"10.5325/jworlchri.11.2.0299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jworlchri.11.2.0299","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Christianity","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75769485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}