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James, a researcher and writer on media, religion, and culture, compiles nine chapters that examine the movement of Christian mega churches to countries in the Global South: South Korea, Brazil, Peru, Ghana, Nigeria, Australia, India, and the Philippines. Historians, sociologists, theologians, and marketing and communication scholars from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the US, the UK, and Australia discuss the culture and ethos of Southern Christianity, marketing techniques, Charismatic Christianity, and technology, as well as outreach and socioeconomic efforts. They consider the Kingsway International Christian Center; media ministries in Nigeria; the Nevius principle, the concept of family-run corporations, and the Confucian model of leadership in churches in South Korea; the Hillsong Church and the concept of worshippers as consumers; the followers of Velarde, the founder of El Shaddai in the Philippines; how Christian churches are creating communal shelters and imagined communities in India in the context of fears related to job security, identity, and the caste system; Father Marcelo Rossi's church in Brazil; and how Evangelical Christian leaders are creating new spaces in Peru's public sphere in the course of evangelization and sociopolitical activism. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
