The next Christendom

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The explosive southward expansion of Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin American has barely registered on Western consciousness. Nor has the globalization of Christianity--and the enormous religious, political, and social consequences it portends--been properly understood. Philip Jenkins' The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity is the first book to take the full measure of the changing face of the Christian faith. Jenkins asserts that by the year 2050 only one Christian in five will be a non-Latino white person and that the center of gravity ofthe Christian world will have shifted firmly to the Southern hemisphere. Within a few decades Kinshasa, Buenos Aires, Addis Ababa, and Manila will replace Rome, Athens, Paris, London, and New York as the focal points of the Church...

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Other Editions

• The next Christendom: the rise of global ChristianityOxford University Press2002-01-01
• Next ChristendomOxford University Press2002-01-01
• The Next ChristendomOxford University Press, USA2002-03-31
• The Next ChristendomOxford University Press, USA2003-10-24
• Next ChristendomOxford University Press, Incorporated2011-01-01
• The next christendomOxford University Press2011-01-01