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2. Ananda Metteyya/Allan Bennett (1872–1923)

   Allan Bennett was one of the first British people to be ordained as a Buddhist monk (bhikkhu) in Asia, taking the name Ananda Metteyya. He was a liminal figure who stretched across different nineteenth and early twentieth-century contexts. He was well-educated but experienced poverty and chro...

   ​Author

   Elizabeth Harris

   ​Faith tradition

   Buddhism

   ​Topics

   Figures and thinkers

3. Missiology

   This article highlights key themes from history, current practice, and future directions in missiology. It traces the development of missiology as a discipline, highlighting some of the key voices, groups and movements along the way. It provides a brief overview of the history of missiology, ...

   ​Author

   James Butler, Harvey Kwiyani, and Cathy Ross

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Theological methods

4. Christian Feminist Theological Ethics

   As Hilde Lindemann has written, ‘Feminist ethics isn’t a branch of ethics – it’s a way of doing ethics’ (7). Likewise, Christian feminist theological ethics is not a branch of Christian theology and ethics, it is a way of doing Christian theology and ethics. The most basic description of Ch...

   ​Author

   Cristina L. H. Traina

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Ethics

5. Christian Views of Islam

   In the contemporary world, Christians and Muslims make up the world’s two largest religious communities, together comprising somewhere between a third and half of the world’s population. The relationship between them is, therefore, important. This article outlines Christian thinking about I...

   ​Author

   Hugh Goddard

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Theology of religions

6. Law and Religion in Brahmanism: the Dharmaśāstra

   This entry delves into the origin, sources, and role of the Dharmaśāstra (science of dharma) in the historical and cultural context of ancient India. In contrast to other ancient civilizations (such as the Roman Republic and Empire), ancient Indian society was characterized by the lack of a...

   ​Author

   Alessandro Giudice

   ​Faith tradition

   Hinduism

   ​Topics

   Law, Theological methods

7. Theology in Latin America

   This article will survey the historical process behind, and the main topics of, Christian theology as it developed and appears today in Latin America. It will first make a historical retrieval of how this theology had, for a large time, a European configuration, reinforced by a strong roman...

   ​Author

   Maria Clara Bingemer

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Theological movements

8. World Christianity

   World Christianity as a historical phenomenon emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century, showing the global reaching of Christianity physically, numerically, and characteristically. Even though the number of Christians at the beginning of the twenty-first century (around thirty-t...

   ​Author

   Lalsangkima Pachuau

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Theological movements

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