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Ault, James. 2013. African Christianity Rising: Christianity’s Explosive Growth in Africa.

By Adriaan van Klinken (University of Leeds). Those who are teaching world Christianities at European institutions may recognize how difficult it can be to give students, grown up in a highly secularized context, a sense of the significance and vibrancy of Christianity in other ...

Dugan, Katherine. 2019. Millennial Missionaries: How a Group of Young Catholics is Trying to Make Catholicism Cool

Reviewed by Annie Blazer (College of William and Mary). Katherine Dugan provides a window onto the lives of a small group of devout Catholic millennials. These young Catholics enthusiastically share their vision of a personally rewarding religious life that need ...

Johnson, Jessica. 2018. Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire.

Reviewed by Brendan Jamal Thornton (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Depending on what you are looking for, the title of Jessica Johnson’s 2018 volume from Duke University Press may be a bit misleading: you need not be home alone or draw the curtains closed in order ...

A Review Forum of Praying with the Senses: Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice (Ed. Sonja Luehrmann 2018)

with contributions by: Lars Hedegaard Williams Helena Kupari Valentina Napolitano Simon Coleman Sarah Bakker Kellogg Review Forum Response: Sonja Luehrmann

Carroll, Timothy. 2018. Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven

Reviewed by Elena Kravchenko. In Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven, Timothy Carroll presents a detailed description of how Orthodox Christians who attend and work at St. Æthelwald’s parish in London think about and engage ...
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