TY - GEN T1 - Imagining persecution : why American Christians believe there is a global war against their faith A1 - Bruner, Jason LA - English PP - New Brunswick, Camden PB - Rutgers University Press YR - 2021 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1233251536 AB - "Many American Christians have come to understand their relationship to other Christian denominations and traditions through the lens of religious persecution. This book provides a historical account of these developments, showing the global, theological, and political changes that made it possible for contemporary Christians to claim that there is a global war on Christians. This book, however, does not advocate on behalf of particular repressed Christian communities, nor does it argue for the genuineness (or lack thereof) of certain Christians' claims of persecution. Instead, this book is the first to examine the idea that there is a "global war on Christians" and its analytical implications. It does so by giving a concise history of the categories (like "martyrs"), evidence (statistics and metrics), and theologies that have come together to produce a global Christian imagination premised upon the notion of shared suffering for one's faith. The purpose in doing so is not to deny certain instances of suffering or death; rather, it is to reflect upon the consequences for thinking about religious violence and Christianity worldwide using terms such as a "global war on Christians.""-- CN - BR1601.3 .B78 2021eb SN - 9781978816831 SN - 1978816839 SN - 9781978816817 SN - 1978816812 SN - 9781978816824 SN - 1978816820 KW - Persecution. KW - Church history : 21st century. KW - Christians : United States : Attitudes. KW - Persécutions. KW - Église : Histoire : 21e siècle. KW - Chrétiens : États-Unis : Attitudes. KW - RELIGION / General. KW - Christians : Attitudes KW - Church history KW - Persecution KW - United States KW - 2000-2099 KW - Christianity, Christian, Faith, American Christians, religious persecution, religious, religion, contemporary Christians, persecution, global war on Christians, martyrs, religious violence, Martyrdom, reformation, New Testament, Suffering Body of Christ, globalization, international religious freedom, religious freedom, Jason Bruner, late-20th and early-21st centuries. KW - Electronic books. ER -