
Connecting Christianities
World Christianity and Mission in the Twenty-First Century
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 26. February 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
388 pages
978-90-04-74964-1 (ISBN)
Description
How to understand and practice World Christianity and mission in the twenty-first century? What does World Christianity mean to an ordinary Christian in their everyday life? In what ways do Christians belong to a global Christian community? This book engages with these questions by offering a critical perspective on prevalent notions of World Christianity. In a context where World Christianity is often understood as an effort to make the whole world Christian or as Christianity of the global south, this book emphasises the importance of global connections in Christianity. This way of thinking about World Christianity not only opens up new horizons in scholarship but also has implications for the practice of everyday Christian mission in the contemporary context: through building connections with fellow Christians from different denominational and geographical backgrounds, with people of other religions and traditions, and with the wider society.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-74964-1 (9789004749641)
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Muthuraj Swamy (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is Director of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide. He has studied Theology, Religions, Sociology, and Political Science in India and in the UK. He is the author of The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue: Plurality, Conflict and Elitism in Hindu-Christian-Muslim Relations (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Reconciliation: The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2019 (SPCK).
Jenny Leith (PhD, Durham University) is Lecturer in Christian Ethics at Westcott House, Cambridge. A political theologian and ethicist, with a particular interest in Christian formation, her research interests bring together negative theology, political theory, and ecclesiology. She is the author of Political Formation: Being formed by the Spirit in church and world (SCM, 2023).
Jenny Leith (PhD, Durham University) is Lecturer in Christian Ethics at Westcott House, Cambridge. A political theologian and ethicist, with a particular interest in Christian formation, her research interests bring together negative theology, political theory, and ecclesiology. She is the author of Political Formation: Being formed by the Spirit in church and world (SCM, 2023).