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Migration and the Making of Global Christianity

MIGRATION AND THE MAKING OF GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY

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Religion & Mythology

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<P>This book offers a magisterial sweep through 1500 years of Christian history with a groundbreaking focus on the missionary role of migrants in its spread. Human migration has long been identified as a driving force of historical change. Building on this understanding, the author surveys the history of Christianity’s global expansion from its origins through 1500 CE to show how migration—more than official missionary activity or imperial designs—played a vital role in making Christianity the world’s largest religion. Church history has tended to place a premium on political power and institutional forms, thus portraying Christianity as a religion disseminated through official representatives of church and state. But, as the author illustrates, this <Q>top-down perspective overlooks the multifarious array of social movements, cultural processes, ordinary experiences, and non-elite activities and decisions that contribute immensely to religious encounter and exchange.</Q> His socio-historical approach to understanding the growth of Christianity as a world religion disrupts the narrative of Western preeminence, while honoring and making sense of the diversity of religious expression that has characterized the world Christian movement for two millennia. In turning the focus of the story away from powerful empires and heroic missionaries, this book instead tells the more truthful story of how every Christian migrant is a vessel for the spread of the Christian faith in our deeply interconnected world.</P>

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Front Cover.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Dedication.
Contents.
Maps.
Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1: Conceptual Overview.
2: Migration in Human History: A Conceptual Overview.
3: Migration and the Globalization of Religion: Understanding Conversion.
4: Theologizing Migration: From Eden to Exile.
5: Historical Assessment.
6: Christianization of the Roman Empire: The Immigrant Factor.
7: Frontier Flows: The Faith of Captives and the Fruit of Captivity.
8: Minority Report: From the Church in Persia to the Persian Church.
9: Christ and Odin: Migration and Mission in an Age of Violence.
10: To the Ends of the East: The Faith of Merchants.
11: Gaining the World: The Interlocking Strands of Migration, Imperial Expansion, and Christian Mission.
12: Beyond Empire.
Bibliography.
Index.

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