The Next Christendom (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Jenkins
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Current affairs, history, and religion
- Time of Work: The twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, History, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Twentieth century, Supernatural, Islam, Twenty-first century, Missions or missionaries, Religion, Poverty or poor people, Oppression, Developing countries, Christianity, Conservatism, Muslims, Faith, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, South America or South Americans, Church or churches, Fundamentalism
Philip Jenkins bases his projections in The Next Christendom on an analysis and synthesis of geographic and demographic data from a wide range of sources. As his subtitle suggests, he predicts that by 2050 the world will see The Coming of Global Christianity, a Christianity very different from what his audience, presumably American-born and European- born Christians, has experienced.
The raw data behind Jenkins’s text does not always cohere well in his prose. Chapters have frequent subheadings which add clarity, but often his information has a chunky rather than...
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