Christianity and Freedom: Volume 2, Contemporary Perspectives

Allen D. Hertzke, Timothy Samuel Shah

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Law
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316566602
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Law

Volume 2 of Christianity and Freedom illuminates how Christian minorities and transnational Christian networks contribute to the freedom and flourishing of societies across the globe, even amidst pressure and violent persecution. Featuring unprecedented field research by some of the world's most distinguished scholars, it documents the outsized role of Christians in promoting human rights and religious freedom; fighting injustice; stimulating economic equality; providing education, social services, and health care; and nurturing democratic civil society. Readers will come away surprised and sobered to learn how this very Christian link to freedom often invites persecution. What are the dimensions of persecution and how are Christians responding to that pressure? What resources - theological, social, or transnational - do they marshal in leavening their societies? What will be lost if the Christian presence is marginalized? The answers to these questions are of crucial relevance in a world awash with religious extremism and deepening instability.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Table of contents
• Contributing Authors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Christianity and Freedom in the Contemporary World
• 1 Persecution in the Context of Religious and Christian Demography, 1970–2020
• 2 Patterns and Purposes of Contemporary Anti-Christian Persecution
• 3 Where the Spirit Leads: Global Pentecostalism and Freedom
• 4 Christianity among the Marginalized: Empowering Poor Women in India
• 5 Transnational Christian Networks for Human Dignity
• 6 The Growth and Dynamism of Chinese Christianity
• 7 Christianity and Religious Freedom in Indonesia since 1998
• 8 Christianity and Freedom in India: Colonialism, Communalism, Caste, and Violence
• 9 Vietnam: Christianity’s Contributions to Freedoms and Human Flourishing in Adversity
• 10 The Challenge and Leaven of Christianity in Pakistan
• 11 Christianity and the Challenge of Religious Violence in Northern Nigeria
• 12 Copts of Egypt: Defiance, Compliance, and Continuity
• 13 Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Indigenous Palestinian Christianity in the West Bank
• 14 Christians in the State of Israel: Between Integration and Emigration
• 15 Arab Muslim Attitudes toward Religious Minorities
• 16 They That Remain: Syrian and Iraqi Christian Communities amid the Syria Conflict and the Rise of the Islamic State
• Index