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| Titre : | World Christian Encyclopedia : A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World A.D. 1900-2000 |
| Auteurs : | D.B. Barrett, Éditeur scientifique |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Oxford [GB] : Oxford University Press, 1982 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-19-572435-6 |
| Format : | xv + 1010 p. / Photos N&B; cartes; graphiques |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | JT/A (Christianisme : approche générale) |
| Résumé : | This major new reference is the first comprehensive survey of contemporary Christianity in all its many versions, set in both its religious and secular contexts. The work of some 500 contributors from the academic, religious, and professional worlds, the World Christian Encyclopedia is designed to meet the needs of students and teachers, researchers and reporters, pastors and church workers, officials and planners. The contemporary Christian world is extremely complex, with some 1.4 billion believers in 223 nations. Fully international in scope, the Encyclopedia systematically describes, in fourteen sections, the extent, status, and characteristics of the Christian religion, its 150 major ecclesiastical traditions and 20,800 distinct denominations, as well as their dioceses, jurisdictions, missions, assemblies, and fellowships. The work treats Christianity in the context of all the great world religions and the so-called “new religions,” as well as atheism, agnosticism, secularism, and Marxism. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Preface - List of global tables / List of maps / List of nations and countries: full, shortened, official, alternate, popular and partial names - Editors and consultants - Introduction - How to use this encyclopedia - PART 1 – STATUS: THE EXPANSION AND STATUS OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE 20TH CENTURY: An illustrated and numerical survey summarizing 20th-century global religious trends documented in this Encyclopedia, including tables showing the spread of Christianity across the world; non-Christian religions; the rise and spread of secularization, Communism, secularism and atheism; missions, evangelization and conversion; the effect of population explosion, and the shift in the Christian numerical centre of gravity towards the Third World; and present trends extrapolated to the year ad 2000. - PART 2 – CHRONOLOGY: A CHRONOLOGY OF WORLD EVANGELIZATION, ad 27-1983: The historical background to world Christianity / Fission and fusion in world Christian traditions, ad 30-1985 - PART 3 – METHODOLOGY: ENUMERATING CHRISTIANITY AND RELIGIONS: METHODOLOGY, SOURCES, CLASSIFICATIONS AND CODES : A comprehensive description and analysis of the varieties and problems of comparative Christian enumeration, embodying a detailed explanation, illustrated by photographs, of the new methodology employed in the construction of the Encyclopedia’s statistical tables, the sources used, the assumptions made, classifications and codes, and how data have been selected where a choice was available. - PART 4 – CULTURE: PEOPLES OF THE WORLD: AN ETHNOLINGUISTIC CLASSIFICATION : Evolving a detailed listing of mankind’s 5 races, 7 stylized racial colours, 13 geographical races, 71 ethnolinguistic families, and 432 major peoples, with classification of 8,990 major constituent peoples, sub-peoples and cultures, 7,010 languages, 17,000 dialects, and 80,000 alternative names in use. / Peoples of the World - PART 5 – EVANGELIZATION: QUANTIFYING THE CONCEPT OF EVANGELIZATION : The concepts of evangelization and world evangelization, and their definition, description, quantification, and enumeration / Comparative demographic evangelization: a scale - PART 6 – CODEBOOK: QUICK-REFERENCE CODEBOOK FOR STATISTICAL TABLES : A quick-reference alphabetic codebook covering all religious and religious activities, for the various series of national and international statistical tables in this Encyclopedia, especially in the Survey immediately following. - PART 7 – SURVEY: A SURVEY OF CHRISTIANITY AND RELIGIONS IN 223 COUNTRIES : This survey gives, for every country in the world (in a single alphabetical listing, A-Z), (a) brief secular data, (b) a standardized statistical table I 'Religious adherents in each country, AD 1900-2000’ presenting overall religious adherents, profession (preference), affiliation and practice in the 20th century, with annual change during the decade 1970-80; and presenting also government statistics of religion, and polls of religion and church attendance; (c) an illustrated text describing the present religious situation, non-Christian religions (described in order of numerical size), the current status of Christianity, description of the major churches (in order of size), the churches and development, church and society, church-state relations, interdenominational organizations, and religious broadcasting; (d) a listing of any major bibliographical items describing churches and religions in the country; and (e) a standardized statistical table 2 ‘Organized churches and denominations in each country’ presenting statistics and description of organized Christianity—every church, denomination and diocese in each nation, including indigenous churches, banned churches, suppressed churches, underground churches, radio churches, refugee churches, migrant churches, diaspora churches, uniting churches, para-churches, micro-churches, alternative churches, etc., with totals and projections covering the decade 1970-1980; together with data on organized Christian activity including evangelization, foreign missionaries, institutions, periodicals, personnel, religious libraries, scripture distribution, and service agencies. - PART 8 – STATISTICS: GLOBAL, CONTINENTAL AND CONFESSIONAL STATISTICAL TABLES : A series of global tables, these being world summary tables of the categories surveyed in the Encyclopedia. The final table is the longest (Global Table 31), a comparative table giving, for each of the 223 countries, a single line across 6 pages tabulating 107 items including religious and religio-political statistics and typologies. - PART 9 – DICTIONARY: SURVEY DICTIONARY OF WORLD CHRISTIANITY : A contemporary dictionary, illustrated, defining and explaining the majority of terms used in the Christian world and given in the Encyclopedia; also brief analyses of new data— international Christian organizations, scripture distribution and translations, Christian radio and TV stations, research centres, new forms of ministry, urban and industrial mission, the churches and development, institutions, missionary aviation, Christian literature production, religious libraries, theological education, religious periodicals, computers in the churches, religious dissent, church unions, and other contemporary issues / Terminology of church membership and Christian enumeration / A comparative chart giving definitions of 70 terms used in the enumeration of church members and other Christians / Episcopal churches with disputed apostolic succession, ad 1650-1980 / Evolution of the futurology of Christianity and religion, ad 1893-1980 - PART 10 – BIBLIOGRAPHY: SELECTIVE WORLD BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHRISTIANITY : A listing, with occasional annotations, of major works of reference on Christianity and its secular and religious contexts in all fields of study. - PART 11 – ATLAS: ATLAS OF CHRISTIANITY AND EVANGELIZATION IN THE MODERN WORLD : Global Christianity and world evangelization (Global Maps 1-8) / The modern world: human environment and activity (Maps 1-18) - PART 12 – WHO’S WHO: WHO’S WHO IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD, 1970-80 : A short illustrated compilation of brief biographical notes on a representative selection of 490 contemporary leaders in the Christian world. - PART 13 – DIRECTORY: TOPICAL DIRECTORY OF WORLD CHRISTIANITY: For 76 topics, a classified listing of names, addresses and telephone numbers of churches, missions, councils, federations, communities, centres, societies, institutions, seminaries, libraries, periodicals, programmes, ministries, media, service agencies, government agencies concerned with religion, and other Christian and religious organizations throughout the world; together with a similar section on non-Christian religions / Definitions of topics / Topical directory subject index - PART 14 – INDEXES: QUICK-REFERENCE INDEXES : Polyglot glossary of religious terminology / Names of countries in 6 major languages / Names for God in 900 languages / Index of peoples and languages / Christian abbreviations, acronyms and initials / Photographic index / Standard and definitive locations index |
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| Code-barres | Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité |
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| JT/A R003 | JT/A R003 | Livre | Bibliothèque principale | Ouvrages de référence | Consultation sur place Exclu du prêt |
