Joel A Carpenter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 235906 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joel A Carpenter |
| NOMBRES | Joel A |
| APELLIDO | Carpenter |
| FIRMA | CARPENTER J A |
| AFILIACIONES | Pew Charitable Trusts |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Kwame Bediako Makes an Offer
This review essay addresses the major themes of Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako’s thought, as presented in Tim Hartman, Kwame Bediako: African Theology for a World Christianity. Bediako advocated examining the traditional spirituality of African peoples, studying the Bible in vernacular languages, and asking how the person and work of Jesus Christ engage local cultures. He insisted that Western theology was not central and normative to the Chri…
Religious Innovation and Competition in Contemporary African Christianity
This introductory essay lays out the main themes of a special issue of Journal of Contemporary African Studies which brings together six empirically grounded papers by African social scientists of different disciplinary backgrounds. These works touch on various aspects of the social impact of religious innovation and competition in present day African Christianity. They represent the first fruits on the social science side of an interdisciplinary…
Christianity in Chinese Public Life
This book analyzes the interaction of religion, society, and governance in China - suggesting it is much more subtle and complex than common convention suggests. The edited work addresses civic engage
An Unusual Relationship
What’s New about the New Evangelical Social Engagement?
The “new” evangelical social engagement is rather new, but not unprecedented. There have been at least two other recent instances of evangelical social engagement: First, the so-called “new evangelicals,” riding the wave of a major American revival of religious interest in the early days of Billy Graham’s career in the 1950s. Second, the group of “young evangelicals” arising out of the 1960s civil rights and antiwar movements, whose 1973 manifest…
God and the Atlantic
A review of God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide, by Thomas Albert Howard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
The changing face of Christianity
Over the past century, Christianity's place and role in the world have changed dramatically. In 1900, 80 percent of the world's Christians lived in Europe and North America. Today, more than 60 percent of the world's Christians live outside of that region. This change calls for a reexamination of the way the story of Christianity is told, the methodological tools for its analysis, and its modes of expression. Perhaps most significant is the role …
The Book of Jerry Falwell
Revive Us Again
Journal Article Revive Us again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism, by Joel A. Carpenter. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, xiv+335pp. $30.00 Get access Mark A. Shibley Mark A. Shibley Southern Oregon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 61, Issue 1, Spring 2000, Pages 106–108, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712094 Published: 01 March 2000
Revive Us Again
Revive us Again
Revive Us Again
The Churching of America, 1776-1990
Journal Article The Churching of America, 1776–1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy. By Roger Finke and Rodney Stark. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. xvi, 328 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-8135-1837-7.) Get access Joel A. Carpenter Joel A. Carpenter Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994…
On Behalf of Israel
Journal Article On Behalf of Israel: American Fundamentalist Attitudes toward Jews, Judaism, and Zionism, 1865–1945. By Yaakov Ariel. (Brooklyn: Carlson, 1991. xviii + 172 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-926019-39-2.) Get access Joel A. Carpenter Joel A. Carpenter Pew Charitable Trusts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 671, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080…
Training God's Army
Training God's Army: The American Bible School, 1880–1940. By Virginia Lieson Brereton. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. xxii + 212 pp. $27.50.) Earthen Vessels: American Evangelicals and Foreign Missions, 1880–1980. Ed. by Joel A. Carpenter and Wilbert R. Shenk. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990. xviii + 350 pp. Paper, $15.95.) Get access Robert A. Schneider Robert A. Schneider Temple University Search for other works by this author on:…
Making Higher Education Christian
Fundamentalist Institutions and the Rise of Evangelical Protestantism, 1929-1942
In April of 1952 an article inChristian Lifemagazine proclaimed Chicago "the evangelical capital of the U.S.A." To back this claim, editor Russell T. Hitt cited a host of evangelical agencies in greater Chicago: mission boards, denominational offices, colleges, Bible institutes, seminaries, publishing concerns (includingChristian Lifeitself) and youth organizations. In total, the author mentioned over one hundred different agencies such as Youth …
Revive Us Again
Fundamentalist Institutions and the Rise of Evangelical Protestantism, 1929-1942
In April of 1952 an article inChristian Lifemagazine proclaimed Chicago "the evangelical capital of the U.S.A." To back this claim, editor Russell T. Hitt cited a host of evangelical agencies in greater Chicago: mission boards, denominational offices, colleges, Bible institutes, seminaries, publishing concerns (includingChristian Lifeitself) and youth organizations. In total, the author mentioned over one hundred different agencies such as Youth …
Religious Innovation and Competition in Contemporary African Christianity
This introductory essay lays out the main themes of a special issue of Journal of Contemporary African Studies which brings together six empirically grounded papers by African social scientists of different disciplinary backgrounds. These works touch on various aspects of the social impact of religious innovation and competition in present day African Christianity. They represent the first fruits on the social science side of an interdisciplinary…
An Unusual Relationship
Making Higher Education Christian
Fundamentalist Institutions and the Rise of Evangelical Protestantism, 1929-1942
In April of 1952 an article inChristian Lifemagazine proclaimed Chicago "the evangelical capital of the U.S.A." To back this claim, editor Russell T. Hitt cited a host of evangelical agencies in greater Chicago: mission boards, denominational offices, colleges, Bible institutes, seminaries, publishing concerns (includingChristian Lifeitself) and youth organizations. In total, the author mentioned over one hundred different agencies such as Youth …
Making Higher Education Christian
Training God's Army
Training God's Army: The American Bible School, 1880–1940. By Virginia Lieson Brereton. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. xxii + 212 pp. $27.50.) Earthen Vessels: American Evangelicals and Foreign Missions, 1880–1980. Ed. by Joel A. Carpenter and Wilbert R. Shenk. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990. xviii + 350 pp. Paper, $15.95.) Get access Robert A. Schneider Robert A. Schneider Temple University Search for other works by this author on:…
On Behalf of Israel
Journal Article On Behalf of Israel: American Fundamentalist Attitudes toward Jews, Judaism, and Zionism, 1865–1945. By Yaakov Ariel. (Brooklyn: Carlson, 1991. xviii + 172 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-926019-39-2.) Get access Joel A. Carpenter Joel A. Carpenter Pew Charitable Trusts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 671, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080…
The Churching of America, 1776-1990
Journal Article The Churching of America, 1776–1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy. By Roger Finke and Rodney Stark. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. xvi, 328 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-8135-1837-7.) Get access Joel A. Carpenter Joel A. Carpenter Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994…
Revive Us Again
Revive us Again
Revive Us Again
Revive Us Again
Journal Article Revive Us again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism, by Joel A. Carpenter. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, xiv+335pp. $30.00 Get access Mark A. Shibley Mark A. Shibley Southern Oregon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 61, Issue 1, Spring 2000, Pages 106–108, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712094 Published: 01 March 2000
The Book of Jerry Falwell
The changing face of Christianity
Over the past century, Christianity's place and role in the world have changed dramatically. In 1900, 80 percent of the world's Christians lived in Europe and North America. Today, more than 60 percent of the world's Christians live outside of that region. This change calls for a reexamination of the way the story of Christianity is told, the methodological tools for its analysis, and its modes of expression. Perhaps most significant is the role …
God and the Atlantic
A review of God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide, by Thomas Albert Howard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
What’s New about the New Evangelical Social Engagement?
The “new” evangelical social engagement is rather new, but not unprecedented. There have been at least two other recent instances of evangelical social engagement: First, the so-called “new evangelicals,” riding the wave of a major American revival of religious interest in the early days of Billy Graham’s career in the 1950s. Second, the group of “young evangelicals” arising out of the 1960s civil rights and antiwar movements, whose 1973 manifest…
Christianity in Chinese Public Life
This book analyzes the interaction of religion, society, and governance in China - suggesting it is much more subtle and complex than common convention suggests. The edited work addresses civic engage
An Unusual Relationship
Religious Innovation and Competition in Contemporary African Christianity
This introductory essay lays out the main themes of a special issue of Journal of Contemporary African Studies which brings together six empirically grounded papers by African social scientists of different disciplinary backgrounds. These works touch on various aspects of the social impact of religious innovation and competition in present day African Christianity. They represent the first fruits on the social science side of an interdisciplinary…
Kwame Bediako Makes an Offer
This review essay addresses the major themes of Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako’s thought, as presented in Tim Hartman, Kwame Bediako: African Theology for a World Christianity. Bediako advocated examining the traditional spirituality of African peoples, studying the Bible in vernacular languages, and asking how the person and work of Jesus Christ engage local cultures. He insisted that Western theology was not central and normative to the Chri…
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