Word: tribalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moko speaks as a tribal skeptic. If Livingstone's God is potent, why do the rains not come? Barred from Sechele's bed, she slithers back into it like a serpent of old Nile. When he reads from the Scriptures, Sechele's eyes are radiant. But is he a convert, or a con man more anxious for British guns than for God's grace? As for Livingstone, is not a single believer a joy to heaven? Or is he trying to amass a head count of natives for personal glory? Pownall raises these questions without really...
...marauding, a restlessness of tooth and claw: Magyars drifting toward new grazing lands. Vikings blowing down on the north wind to their plunder. Since attack justifies defense, almost everyone came rapidly to participate. War, both waged and endured, got to look like the human condition, The merely private or tribal venture (stealing herds, fetching Helen from Troy) burgeoned into dense public spectacles, whole civilizations on the march The issues came to be territory or wealth or power or security or sometimes some thing darker and more confused: vast error (World War I), vast ego and evil (World...
...Christians must currently struggle against political restrictions on their religious freedom. Nearly two-thirds of the book consists of detailed statistics on religions in countries from Afghanistan (where it is a capital crime for a Muslim to convert to Christianity) to Zimbabwe (where 40% of the people still practice tribal religions...
...Christians during the 1970s, more than one-third of them as converts rather than through natural population growth. In Saudi Arabia, Islam's epicenter, thousands of youths have covertly converted to Christianity through listening to radio preachers. In Nigeria, where as of 1900, 73% of the people followed tribal faiths and 26% Islam, the population today-Africa's largest-is 49% Christian and 45% Muslim. South Korea demonstrates the world's most dramatic Christian revival: the churches are growing by 6.6% a year, fully two-thirds through conversions rather than the birth rate...
Barrett analyzes a globe that is experiencing major spiritual changes. The most dramatic changes have been the rise for the first time of atheistic and nonreligious masses (now 20.8% of the world population as compared with .2% in 1900) and the precipitous decline of Chinese folk religions and tribal faiths elsewhere. After centuries as the predominant faith of the Northern Hemisphere, especially Europe, Christianity, as of last year, had a non-white majority for the first time in 1,200 years. In 1900 two-thirds of Christians lived in Europe and Russia; by 2000, three-fifths of them will live...