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Imagining Persecution : Why American Christians Believe There Is a Global War against Their Faith / Jason Bruner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781978816855
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 272/.9 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1601.3 .B78 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.”
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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

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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.”

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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