The Future of Christianity by Martin David;

Author:Martin, David; [Martin, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

11 Rose, Gillian, The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992). Matters are made more complicated when it comes to the issue of religion in the developing world, not merely by the definition of religious cultures as not really modern, but also by the vocabulary of ‘orientalism’ and the labelling of discourses as ‘colonialist’. Orientalism can be deployed to counter critiques of Islam, and colonialism can be deployed to ward off critiques of the cultures and the political corruption of ex-imperial territories, notably in Africa. In the field of Pentecostalism, which is principally a phenomenon of the ‘two-thirds’ world, an anti-colonialist discourse is used to criticize it by the governing elites of that world and by some anthropologists defending the integrity of culture against exogenous change, especially religious change. Increased religious multiculturalism is far from universally welcomed. The vast expansion of Pentecostalism is therefore defined as an American imperial export. That this is historically dubious makes little difference, because the charge is integral to the claim that Western Christian religion in particular was damningly implicated in the movement of Western imperial expansion. For a discussion of that issue one might turn to Norman Etherington (ed.) Missions and Empire (2005) because it shows in what ways Christianity and empire were aligned and also opposed.12

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