Review: Joanna Brooks and Gina Colvin, eds., Decolonizing Mormonism: Approaching a Postcolonial Zion. Salt Lake: University of Utah Press, 2018

Authors

Jon Bialecki

Keywords

Christianity, global south, Philip Jenkins, Christendom, religious growth

Abstract

It is no secret, even as Christianity appears to be waning as a cultural and demographic force in many of the North Atlantic nations that it is commonly associated with, that religion—or at least, certain forms of that religion—are very much waxing in other parts of the world. In regions such as Africa, South and Central America, Oceania, and even parts of Asia, modes of Christian practice, belief, and organization, some with ties to Euro-American denominations, but also many without, are spreading at such a pace that authors such as Philip Jenkins (2011) can speak about the churches there as collectively forming a “next Christendom” and a new “global Christianity.”

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Bialecki, Jon (2019) "Review: Joanna Brooks and Gina Colvin, eds., Decolonizing Mormonism: Approaching a Postcolonial Zion. Salt Lake: University of Utah Press, 2018," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 6: No. 1, Article 12.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol6/iss1/12