TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruner,Jason
TI  - Imagining Persecution: Why American Christians Believe There Is a Global War against Their Faith 
SN  - 9781978816855
AV  - BR1601.3 .B78 2021
U1  - 272/.9 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Christians
KW  - United States
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Church history
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Persecution
KW  - RELIGION / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity, Christian, Faith, American Christians, religious persecution, religious, religion, contemporary Christians, persecution, global war on Christians, martyrs, religious violence, Martyrdom, reformation, New Testament, Suffering Body of Christ, globalization, international religious freedom, religious freedom, Jason Bruner, late-20th and early-21st centuries
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1 Coming to Terms: Christians, Martyrs, and Persecution --; 2 Christians, Martyrdom, and Persecution from the New Testament to the Reformation --; 3 Religious Persecution and American Christianity --; 4 A Global War on Christians? --; 5 The Global Politics of the Suffering Body of Christ --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access
N2  - Many American Christians have come to understand their relationship to other Christian denominations and traditions through the lens of religious persecution. This book provides a historical account of these developments, showing the global, theological, and political changes that made it possible for contemporary Christians to claim that there is a global war on Christians. This book, however, does not advocate on behalf of particular repressed Christian communities, nor does it argue for the genuineness (or lack thereof) of certain Christians’ claims of persecution. Instead, this book is the first to examine the idea that there is a “global war on Christians” and its analytical implications. It does so by giving a concise history of the categories (like “martyrs”), evidence (statistics and metrics), and theologies that have come together to produce a global Christian imagination premised upon the notion of shared suffering for one’s faith. The purpose in doing so is not to deny certain instances of suffering or death; rather, it is to reflect upon the consequences for thinking about religious violence and Christianity worldwide using terms such as a “global war on Christians.”
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978816855
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978816855
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781978816855/original
ER  -