Migration and the Making of Global Christianity

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Free Download Jehu J. Hanciles, "Migration and the Making of Global Christianity"
English | ISBN: 0802875629 | 2021 | 464 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A magisterial sweep through 1500 years of Christian history with a groundbreaking focus on the missionary role of migrants in its spread.

Human migration has long been identified as a driving force of historical change. Building on this understanding, Jehu Hanciles surveys the history of Christianity's global expansion from its origins through 1500 CE to show how migration-more than official missionary activity or imperial designs-played a vital role in making Christianity the world's largest religion.
Church history has tended to place a premium on political power and institutional forms, thus portraying Christianity as a religion disseminated through official representatives of church and state. But, as Hanciles illustrates, this "top-down perspective overlooks the multifarious array of social movements, cultural processes, ordinary experiences, and non-elite activities and decisions that contribute immensely to religious encounter and exchange."
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