The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity 1st Edition

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity presents a collection of essays that explore a range of topics relating to the rise, spread, and influence of Christianity throughout the world.

• Features contributions from renowned scholars of history and religion from around the world
• Addresses the origins and global expansion of Christianity over the course of two millennia
• Covers a wide range of themes relating to Christianity, including women, worship, sacraments, music, visual arts, architecture, and many more
• Explores the development of Christian traditions over the past two centuries across several continents and the rise in secularization

Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion

Page: 784 pages

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (May 23, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1405153768

ISBN-13: 978-1405153768

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Editorial Reviews

I found it a truly impressive volume, amazingly comprehensive, up-to-date, expertly researched and quite readable. A book like this is important in large measure because of the massive geographical and cultural shift of Christianity from Euro-America to the “Southern” or “two thirds” world. By acquainting the reader with the history of Christianity in these regions it alerts us about what to watch for in the future. This collection should be on the easy-to-reach shelf of anyone seriously interested in Christianity in the 21st century and beyond.

Harvey Cox, Author of The Future of Faith

McClymond and Sanneh have gone to the ends of the earth and mobilized experts from a plurality of perspectives. The result is a veritable Pentecost in which many voices – occidental and oriental, male and female, senior and up-and-coming academics – harmonize toward an interdisciplinary and intercultural state-of-the-question that is comprehensible to English readers in their own idiom. The next generation of scholarship on global Christianity begins here.

Amos Yong, Fuller Theological Seminary

Sanneh and McClymond have produced a splendid book that maps the field of World Christianity. The volume assembles a stellar group of leading and younger scholars. Their essays are just right—learned and readable, long enough for depth, and broad enough to cover major trends. Rare for a reference book, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity deserves to be read cover to cover.

Dana L. Robert, Boston University