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Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2025

David N. Hempton
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Harvard University
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The conclusion operates around four questions. First, the appropriate extent and limitations of networks and who should set the boundaries. Self-evidently, the less well-known networks created by the most marginalized, particularly lower-class women of color and Indigenous people at the outer edges of empires and religious traditions, are still the most under-researched and the least understood. Second, how to critically evaluate the relationship between Christianity and empire in the early modern and modern world. Christian expansion and the rise of the European empires are inextricably linked; they are not always in synchronicity regarding objectives or consequences. Third, how did the various revolutions in communications, from the print to the digital revolutions, shape the content of nuclei, the nature and location of nodes that became most important, and the ways networks expanded? Finally, how helpful is it to think of religious traditions capable of transnational mobility in terms of a religious nucleus with a particular DNA core? What inner cores of ideas and practices enabled these disparate religious traditions to grow and thrive thousands of miles from their origins?

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Christianity at the Crossroads
The Global Church from the Print Revolution to the Digital Era
, pp. 209 - 220
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Conclusion
  • David N. Hempton, Harvard University
  • Book: Christianity at the Crossroads
  • Online publication: 19 May 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009597449.009
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  • Conclusion
  • David N. Hempton, Harvard University
  • Book: Christianity at the Crossroads
  • Online publication: 19 May 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009597449.009
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  • Conclusion
  • David N. Hempton, Harvard University
  • Book: Christianity at the Crossroads
  • Online publication: 19 May 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009597449.009
Available formats
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