How to Study Global Christianity : A Short Guide for Students

Jason Bruner

ISBN 10: 3031128109 / ISBN 13: 9783031128103

Published by Springer International Publishing, 2022

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book provides students with an accessible-yet critically oriented-introduction to the foundational methods and themes in Global Christianity scholarship over the past 40 years. While the field of Global Christianity is itself interdisciplinary, it largely has not reflected upon the various disciplines of which it is comprised. In addressing different methods that have constituted this field of scholarship, Jason Bruner draws students' attention to the ways in which these elements have worked together, and what the implications for their use have been in the past and might be in the future. In addition to identifying themes within the discourse, this book offers a survey of where the field has been, what its analytical priorities are, and how future scholars might develop new research projects and trajectories in light of the its history.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Study Global Christianity : A Short Guide for Students
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031128109
• ISBN 13: 9783031128103
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 10D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 260 grams

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Synopsis

This book provides students with an accessible–yet critically oriented–introduction to the foundational methods and themes in Global Christianity scholarship over the past 40 years. While the field of Global Christianity is itself interdisciplinary, it largely has not reflected upon the various disciplines of which it is comprised. In addressing different methods that have constituted this field of scholarship, Jason Bruner draws students’ attention to the ways in which these elements have worked together, and what the implications for their use have been in the past and might be in the future. In addition to identifying themes within the discourse, this book offers a survey of where the field has been, what its analytical priorities are, and how future scholars might develop new research projects and trajectories in light of the its history.

About the Author

Jason Bruner is Associate Professor of Global Christianity at Arizona State University, USA. He is the author of Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda (2017) and Imagining Persecution: Why American Christians Believe There Is a Global War Against Their Faith (2021), as well as a co-editor (with David Kirkpatrick) of Global Visions of Violence: Agency and Persecution in World Christianity (forthcoming).