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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: OUP USA; New edition edition (13 Nov 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0195168917
  • ISBN-13: 978-0195168914
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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By the year 2,050 only one Christian in five will be non-Latino and white, and the center of gravity of the Christian world will have shifted firmly to the Southern Hemisphere. The Next Christendom is the first book to take the full measure of the changing face of the Christian faith. Philip Jenkins shows that the churches that have grown most rapidly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are often more morally conservative and apocalyptic than their northern counterparts. Mysticism, puritanism, faith-healing, exorcism, and dream-visions--concepts which more liberal western churches have traded in for progressive political and social concerns--are basic to these newer churches. And the effects of such beliefs on global politics, Jenkins argues, will be enormous, as religious identification begins to take precedence over allegiance to secular nation-states. Indeed, as Christianity grows in regions where Islam is also expected to increase we may even see a return to the religious wars of the past, fought out with renewed intensity and high-tech weapons far surpassing the swords and spears of the middle ages.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Prepares you for a new world, 4 Jun 2003
By Kurt A. Johnson (Marseilles, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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In this fascinating book, professor Philip Jenkins proclaims that there is coming, within this 21st century, a new Christendom. The first chapter looks at the Christian Church of the past, and shows that the popular conception of a Christian West surrounded by a purely non-Christian world is fallacious; that Christianity took root in other parts of the world than Europe, and survived there all the way to the present. After that, the book looks at the spread of Christianity in the so-called "Third World," the same parts of the globe that are experiencing the fastest population growth.

Having (to my satisfaction, anyway) shown that soon many times more Christians will be living in other parts of the globe than Europe *and* North America combined, the author then goes on to suggest that this new phenomenon will potentially change the very face of Christianity. Prepare to see a new Christianity, one as different from the modern, Western Church as the Medieval Church was from the Church of the Roman Empire.

I must say that this is one of the most fascinating books that I have read in a long time! The author punctures many comfortable ideas about the Church, and prepares the reader for the coming of a new world, a world that will not look like the one we have now. If you are interested in Christianity, or even just in trends that are bound to affect the world you live in, then you must get this book!

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Fly Perched on a Wall..., 31 Oct 2008
By A. O. AKEMU (Amsterdam, NL) - See all my reviews
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One of the beauties of modern scholarship is the relative dexterity with which one can analyse a `foreign' culture or some aspect thereof without the need to immerse oneself completely in it. As a Nigerian, who was brought up as a Christian, Philip Jenkins' The Next Christendom probes my childhood religious milieu and excels in its analysis of `Southern' i.e. non Euro-American Christianity. In this marvellous book, I could recognise the traditions in which I was raised and how they relate to Western Christianity.

Jenkins' basic premise is that Christianity is no longer a strictly Euro-American religion. He argues that Christianity's centre of gravity has shifted to the Global South i.e. the developing world. The faith has metamorphosed to accommodate non-Western cultures and, in doing so, has prospered beyond David Livingstone's wildest imagination. Professor Jenkins buttresses his main point with ample statistical and demographic evidence. For example, he shows (among other things) that in 2025 only 2 of the 10 countries with the largest Christian communities will be Western (USA and Germany).

Of course statistics do not tell the entire story. Why did non-Western (usually conquered) peoples accept the White Man's religion? The Next Christendom argues that if Christian proselytising in the 19th century was at worst driven by imperialist/racist attitudes to non Europeans, and at best, ignorant paternalism on the part of Europeans, why then did Christianity persist in the Third World after the collapse of the European empires? Jenkins posits that the reasons are varied: from a desire to imitate the West to the all-too-obvious explanation that Africans and Asians came to believe the Christian message.

Jenkins challenges the popular stereotype of Southern Christianity as a reincarnation of deep-seated, pre-Christian religious beliefs. He argues that the assumption underpinning this stereotype is that Western Christianity is the norm. Christianity, a near Eastern religion, adapted to the late Roman world of antiquity. For example, converted pagan temples became the site of some of the great Christian Churches such as St Paul's in London. Indeed, Christianity had become so `inculturated' into Europe that by the sixteenth when Europeans took their faith to non-European peoples, the missionaries naturally assumed that Christianity should reflect their European cultural assumptions. There is no reason why Christianity's age of enculturation should have stopped in the Middle Ages.

How might a world in which the most populous countries (such as Nigeria and Indonesia) are evenly split between Christianity and a resurgent Islam be like? Professor Jenkin's conclusion is a Huntingdonian world in which the borders between Islam and Christianity will be bloody. The future, according to Jenkins, is one in which Islam and Christianity will colour developing country conflicts over everything from access to the benefits of modernisation to social policy. Sadly, the evidence in places like Nigeria and Indonesia largely support Jenkins' conclusion.

Christianity's demographic future is largely in the Global South. Like any responsive multinational corporation, the Churches are actively pursuing this growth market with vigour. According to Jenkins, Southern Christianity is still work in progress; any hopes that a vibrant Southern Christianity will take up `Northern' social issues such as feminism, gay rights, environmentalism etc, will be dashed because the Southern Churches will increasingly be focused on Southern issues.

Despite a severe reversal in its fortunes (at least in the West), Christianity is alive, hale and hearty in the Developing World. The New Christendom illustrates this point with the candour and insight. The New Christendom is a well-researched and richly annotated book. It is not just a dry academic tome; Professor Jenkins seems to have perched on the walls of the churches in downtown Lagos and captured the vibrancy and the hopes of the congregation. What's more, he has put Southern religious expression in its historical and global context.

After reading God's Continent, I had come to expect a very high standard of scholarship from Professor Jenkins. The New Christendom has delivered on all points and them some. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand why Christianity is still such a powerful force in the Developing World. I highly recommend this book and it deserves my 4 stars.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Biggest Uncovered Story of the Last Century, 26 Mar 2002
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This review is from: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Hardcover)
Phil Jenkins has written a blockbuster. An iconoclastic professor at Pennsylvania (US) State University, Jenkins argues that the rapid growth of Pentecostal Christianity around the world (both within and alongside existing traditions) will literally reshape the world. This movement is a mere 100 years old. In a post-modern world, religion returns to center stage, and Jenkins has already turned on the spotlight. This is a must-read for all futurists--including the armchair variety such as myself. After reading Jenkins' seemingly airtight analysis, it is difficult to give credence to any author suggesting the passing of Christianity.
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