Decolonizing Evangelicalism

2020-03-02 Religion

Author : Randy S. Woodley
Release : 2020-03-02
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Decolonizing Evangelicalism written by Randy S. Woodley. This book was released on 2020-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing interest in postcolonial theologies has initiated a vital conversation within and outside the academy in recent decades, turning many “standard theologies” on their head. This book introduces seminary students, ministry leaders, and others to key aspects, prevailing mentalities, and some major figures to consider when coming to understand postcolonial theologies. Woodley and Sanders provide a unique combination of indigenous theology and other academic theory to point readers toward the way of Jesus. Decolonizing Evangelicalism is a starting point for those who hope to change the conversation and see that the world could be lived in a different way.

Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity

2023-10-24 History

Author : Elizabeth A. Foster
Release : 2023-10-24
Genre : History
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Download or read book Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity written by Elizabeth A. Foster. This book was released on 2023-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following the era of decolonization, global Christianity experienced a seismic shift. While Catholicism and Protestantism have declined in their historic European strongholds, they have sustained explosive growth in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. This demographic change has established Christians from the Global South as an increasingly dominant presence in modern Christian thought, culture, and politics. Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity unearths the roots of this development, charting the metamorphosis of Christian practice and institutions across five continents throughout the pivotal years of decolonization. The essays in this collection illustrate the diverse new ideas, rituals, and organizations created in the wake of Western imperialism's formal collapse and investigate how religious leaders, politicians, theologians, and lay people debated and shaped a new Christianity for a postcolonial world. Contributors argue that the collapse of colonialism and broader cultural challenges to Western power fostered new organizations, theologies, and political engagements across the world, ultimately setting Christianity on its current trajectory away from its colonial heritage. These essays interrogate decolonization's varied and conflicting impacts on global Christianity, while also providing a novel framework for rethinking decolonization's modern legacies. Taken together, this book charts the relationship between decolonization and Christianity on a truly global scale. Contributors: Joel Cabrita, Darcie Fontaine, Elizabeth A. Foster, Udi Greenberg, David Kirkpatrick, Eric Morier-Genoud, Phi-Vân Nguyen, Justin Reynolds, Sarah Shortall, Lydia Walker, Charlotte Walker-Said, Albert Wu, Gene Zubovich.

Descending Like a Dove

2018-09-11

Author : Tommy Airey
Release : 2018-09-11
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Download or read book Descending Like a Dove written by Tommy Airey. This book was released on 2018-09-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descending Like a Dove is the story of an exodus out of Evangelical Christianity and a wilderness adventure in search of Something more. The promised land will never truly be "great again" until it flows with milk and honey for all. Authentic discipleship to Jesus decolonizes. It dares us to connect the dots and tell the truth about what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called "the giant triplets of evil"-racism, militarism and extreme poverty. These triplets fuel upward mobility. The wrong kind of "great." And so we descend.

Bringing Up Kids When Church Lets You Down

2022-10-11 Religion

Author : Bekah McNeel
Release : 2022-10-11
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Bringing Up Kids When Church Lets You Down written by Bekah McNeel. This book was released on 2022-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is about the various places and ways that uncertainty shows up for parents who, having left or altered the faith they once knew, now must decide what to give their kids. It’s about church attendance, Bible memorization, school choices, and sex talks. It’s about forging new paths in racial justice and creation care while the intractable voices in your head call you a pagan Marxist for doing so.” After the spectacular implosion of her ministry career, Bekah McNeel was left disillusioned and without the foundation of certainty she had built her life on. But rather than leaving the Christian faith altogether, she hung out around the edges, began questioning oversimplified categories of black and white that she had been taught were sacred, and became comfortable living in gray areas while starting a new career in journalism. Then she had kids. From the moment someone asked if she was going to have her first child baptized, Bekah began to wonder if the conservative evangelical Christianity she grew up with was really something she wanted to give her children. That question only became more complicated when she had her second child months before White evangelicals carried Donald Trump to victory in the 2016 presidential election. Soon, Bekah found that other parents were asking similar questions as they broke with their fundamentalist religious upbringing and took on new values: Could they raise their kids to live with both the security of faith and the freedom of open-mindedness? To value both Scripture and social justice? To learn morality without shame? In Bringing Up Kids When Church Lets You Down, Bekah gathers voices from history, scholarship, and her own community to guide others who, like her, are on a quest to shed the false certainty and toxic perfectionism of their past to become better, healthier parents—while still providing strong spiritual foundations for their children. She writes with humor and empathy, providing wise reflections (but not glib answers!) on difficult parenting topics while reminding us that we are not alone, even when we break away from the crowd.

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