World Christianity: Methodological Considerations - Paperback

by Martha Frederiks (Volume Editor), Dorottya Nagy (Volume Editor)

World Christianity publications proliferate but the issue of methodology has received little attention. World Christianity: Methodological Considerations addresses this lacuna and explores the methodological ramifications of the World Christianity turn. In twelve chapters scholars from various academic backgrounds (anthropology, religious studies, history, missiology, intercultural studies, theology, and patristics) as well as of multiple cultural and national belongings investigate methodological issues (e.g. methods, use of sources, choosing a unit of analysis, terminology, conceptual categories, ) relevant to World Christianity debates. In a closing chapter the editors Frederiks and Nagy converge the findings and sketch the outlines of what they coin as a 'World Christianity approach', a multidisciplinary and multiple perspective approach to study Christianity/ies' plurality and diversity in past and present.

Author Biography

Martha Frederiks is Professor for the Study of World Christianity at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her research interests are African Christianity/ies, mission history, and Christian-Muslim relations. With Nagy, she published Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission (2020).

Dorottya Nagy is professor of missiology at the Protestant Theological University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research interests are migration, mission studies, Christianity in post-communist Europe, methodology, and theology. With Frederiks, she published Religion, Migration, and Identity (2016).