spotting that one-third of the world's Christians perform their religion outdoor Europe and North the United States, the fourteen essays in mom Tongue Theologies discover how foreign fiction depicts Christianity's dramatic circulate South and East of Jerusalem in addition to North and West. established by means of countryside, this assortment captures the numerous ways that humans around the world obtain Christianity. It additionally celebrates postcolonial literature's variety. And it highlights non-Western authors' biblical literacy, addressing how and why in the neighborhood rooted Christians invoke Scripture of their pursuit of private in addition to social transformation. Featured authors comprise Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constantine Cavafy, Scott Cairns, Chinua Achebe, Madam Afua Kuma, Earl Lovelace, V. S. Reid, Ernesto Cardenal, Helena Parente Cunha, Arundhati Roy, Mary Martha Sherwood, Marguerite Butler, R. M. Ballantyne, Rudyard Kipling, Nora Okja Keller, Amy Tan, Albert Wendt, and Louise Erdrich.

Individual essayists rightly come to assorted conclusions approximately Christianity's worldwide personality. a few attach missionary paintings with colonialism in addition to cultural imperialism, for instance, and but others intensify how indigenous cultures amalgamate with Christianity's foreignness to supply captivating, a number of identities. modifications even though, mom Tongue Theologies delves into the ethical and religious concerns that come up out of the lower and thrust of local responses to Western Christian presence and strain. finally, this anthology indicates the gift of listening for and to such responses, rather in literary artwork, might be a much wider and deeper discernment of the benefits and demerits of post-Western Christianity, in particular for Christians residing within the so-called post-Christian West.

List of Contributors:
Isabel Asensio-Sierra
Di Gan Blackburn
Mini Chandran
Evgenia V. Cherkasova
John Estes
Jack A. Hill
J. A. Jackson
Ellin Sterne Jimmerson
Ymitri Mathison
Catherine Winn Merritt
Darren J. N. Middleton
Mozella G. Mitchell
Sinéad Moynihan
J. Stephen Pearson
Eric J. Sterling

"In an international the place the truth of globalization pervades our each event, it's only correct we must always now have a quantity that explores so ably the globalizing of Western Christianity-and not just its theology, however the technique of expressing that theology. The re-configuration, and sometimes new edition, of Christian which means into neighborhood language, as impressively drawn right into a collective right here, invitations us now to imagine when it comes to a transnational aesthetic, one that incorporates new capability for our figuring out of 'transcendence'."
--Andrew W. Hass
University of Stirling

"This ebook provides the reader with a amazing array of essays on Christianity in international literature open air the Western culture, from Christian groups either old and sleek. It demonstrates the ability of poetry and fiction to light up the riches of a spiritual culture that's able to impressive cultural diversifications in a variety of political and traditionally outlined contexts. it's going to be broadly learn within the West as a super representation of imaginitive and highbrow capability of the Christian church buildings either new and previous in the course of the world."
--David Jasper
University of Glasgow and Renmin college of China

Darren J. N. Middleton is Professor of faith at Texas Christian college. He has released six books, together with Theology after analyzing: Christian mind's eye and the facility of Fiction (2008).