The World's Local Religion - Professor Alec Ryrie

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The World's Local Religion - Professor Alec Ryrie

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This lecture follows the adaptation of evangelical Christianity in East Asia, Southern Africa and Latin America in the post-imperial age: www.gresham.ac....
In the post-imperial age evangelical Christianity has become a genuinely global religion. But it is also deeply local, adapting to and challenging social structures, and developing unique, often incompatible doctrines. This lecture will explore this adaptation in three contexts - East Asia, Southern Africa and Latin America - to ask what evangelicalism has brought to those societies, how (and to what extent) it has put down roots there, and how it has changed them and been changed itself in the process.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: www.gresham.ac....
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@s.koileken369 3 жыл бұрын

To Graham College. I thank you for the free education which I benefit from tremendously!

@elizabethford7263 Жыл бұрын

I want to watch this but as an atheist in Texas, any discussion of evangelical christianity requires more strength than I currently possess. I'll come back to it when I feel more outraged and/ or curious

@woofy2000 11 ай бұрын

How you doin today?

@DF-ss5ep 5 ай бұрын

I'm an atheist but have become interested in the topic. Not because I believe it, but because it's underrated historical knowledge, and it also teaches us about human psychology and group behavior (not just European, apparently)

@AlexeySidoruk 6 жыл бұрын

Thought-provoking. Many thanks!

@antoniolewis1016 6 жыл бұрын

Truly a useful lecture. Many thanks!

@johnkelly3886 3 жыл бұрын

There is enormous cultural and linguistic differences between the Koi and the Bantu. As great as the differences between English language and culture and Chinese.

@martincull4914 9 ай бұрын

Mr Ryrie, excellent, brilliant presentations…..so clear!

@kostask3433 3 жыл бұрын

Without being disposed negatively or positively to Protestantism some of the phenomena described over the course of the lecture reminded me of Hegel’s argument that Christianity was an ideology suited to a sect (His point being the limited scope) and that the historical stage was ripe,for it because of the mystery that Rome’s decline was bringing (unhappy consciousness), it could be that Revivalist Protestantism has recaptured that spirit in both its dynamism and limited scale. I am not sufficiently well versed in Christianity’s history but for me the main pertinent element seems to be the escapism this revivalism offers (see all the references to supernatural phenomena). I had also never heard of the Chinese incident from the mid 1800s which Professor Ryrie describes, absolutely fascinating piece of history.

@emmcee662 3 жыл бұрын

So ironic his final comments on non-political evangelical Protestantism - 4 years on and their support for Trump changed everything

@ninorpereira 3 жыл бұрын

FYI 'Genadendal' in Dutch means 'Dale of forgiveness'; the emphasis is on the second syllagle ('na').

@philgwellington6036 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant Professor! You should do stand up history, 47.33 is a classic lol. Don't worry, you passed this test ..

@ivanc.6064 3 жыл бұрын

22:20 ritual weeping - interesting

@NuisanceMan 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting in general, but echoing Western talking points about the Cultural Revolution deeply compromises his analysis of China.

@Kitiwake Жыл бұрын

Why are southern Baptists called southern baptists?

@olddeuteranomaly5112 7 жыл бұрын

Genadendal is pronounced [χəˈnɑːdəndal].

@philgwellington6036 3 жыл бұрын

Is religion a placebo?

@miodzio1024 3 жыл бұрын

perhaps

@nics4967 3 жыл бұрын

For? Depends how broadly you define it. Any meaning or morality as being true. Would fall under that label in my mind. Human rights would fit under this.

@philgwellington6036 3 жыл бұрын

@@nics4967 Thank you. I was just putting my thought out there lol. Another thought.. is religion a kind of experiment?

@nics4967 3 жыл бұрын

@@philgwellington6036 Your welcome more thoughts the better. Experiments require minds. If religion is an experiment is that not a religious idea? Not trying to be flippant. But would not any mind before matter even deism be religious?

@nics4967 3 жыл бұрын

@@philgwellington6036 Though deism is too hands off and it need not be a trancendant mind. Your talking like by q from start trek?

@araunapalm 3 жыл бұрын

I come from South Africa. The spread of belief in christ does not indicate that it is true christianity. Most of the Christian denominations still have a mixture of christianity and shaman practices. Magic, traditional superstition, witchcraft, muti , is still a strong part of these religions. While the singing is very beautiful, it creates sense of community, and it creates a more moral character for the staunch adherents, there is a strong emotional outpouring of feeling at meetings. I myself have been involved in teaching these people to break away from superstition..

@AbandonedVoid 3 жыл бұрын

Which part are you calling superstition, the shamanism or the Christianity?

@mjgalway3769 3 жыл бұрын

You sound nuts. What brand of Christianity is the true religion? The reformed church of South Africa that supported the apartheid regime?

@loganvanderwier8866 3 жыл бұрын

@@AbandonedVoid 😎