Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918–1929
by Adam Mohr
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481318655
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Hardcover
In eleven short years, from 1918 to 1929, Faith Tabernacle Congregation, a small divine healing church in Philadelphia, spread over the Guinea Coast, garnering over 250 branches and nearly 11,000 members...
If there is one question that haunts Indian Christians, it is this: "What does it mean to be Indian and Christian?" This matter of identity presents a unique challenge, especially today, in the face...
In nineteenth-century Ghana, regional warfare rooted in profound social and economic transformations led thousands of displaced people to seek refuge in the small mountain kingdom of Akuapem. There...
Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, Africa has generated unique expressions of Christianity that have, in their rapid development, overtaken older forms of Christianity represented by historic...
Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man
by Daryl R. Ireland
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481312707
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2020
Format: Hardcover
Dubbed the "Billy Sunday of China" for the staggering number of people he led to Christ, John Song has captured the imagination of generations of readers. His story, as it became popular in the West,...
Civil War, Migration, and the Rise of Dinka Anglicanism
by Jesse A. Zink
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481308229
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2018
Format: Hardcover
Amidst a catastrophic civil war that began in 1983 and ended in 2005, many Dinka people in Sudan repudiated their inherited religious beliefs and embraced a vibrant Anglican faith. Christianity and...
In this sweeping history, Tibebe Eshete presents a new view of Ethiopian Christianity. Synthesizing existing scholarship with original interviews and archival research, he demonstrates that the vernacular...
The first Christian communities were established among the population of Hindi- and Urdu-speaking North India during the middle of the nineteenth century. The evangelical North American Presbyterian...
From the Blood of the Martyrs to the Baptism of the Spirit
by Timothy H. Wadkins
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481307123
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2017
Format: Hardcover
El Salvador has experienced a dramatic religious transformation over the past half-century. In what was once an almost exclusively Catholic nation, more than 35 percent of the people are now evangelical...
Tuskegee, Colonialism, and the Shaping of African Industrial Education
by Andrew E. Barnes
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481303927
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: February 2017
Format: Hardcover
Many Europeans saw Africa's colonization as an exhibition of European racial ascendancy. African Christians saw Africa's subjugation as a demonstration of European technological superiority. If the...
Protestant Encounters with Korean Religions, 1876-1915
by Sung-Deuk Oak
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781602585768
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2015
Format: Paperback
A major catalyst for the growth of Korean Christianity occurred at the turn of the twentieth century when Western missionaries encountered the religious landscape of Korea. These first-generation missionaries...
The History and Transformation of a Free Church Tradition
by Malkhaz Songulashvili
Price: $89.99
ISBN: 9781481301107
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2015
Format: Hardcover
Malkhaz Songulashvili, former Archbishop of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia (EBCG), provides a pioneering, exacting, and sweeping history of Georgian Baptists. Utilizing archival sources in...
Christian missionaries in China have been viewed as agents of Western imperialist values. Yang Huilin, leading scholar of Sino-Christian studies, has dedicated himself to re-evaluating the history of...
Christianity and Political Culture in Contemporary Hong Kong
by Lida V. Nedilsky
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481300322
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2014
Format: Hardcover
Lida V. Nedilsky captures the public ramifications of a personal, Christian faith at the time of Hong Kong’s pivotal political turmoil. From 1997 to 2008, in the much-anticipated reintegration of...
