Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-431) and index.
Introduction: Multiplicity and ambiguity / Mary Farrell Bednarowski -- Listening to new voices -- The Filipino laity / Eleazar Fernandez -- Black women in the United States / Rosetta Ross -- African women theologians / Mercy Amba Oduyoye -- Hispanic women in the United States / Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz -- Traditions and transformation -- Orthodoxy under communism / Paul Mojzes -- Evangelicalism in the West / Mark A. Noll and Ethan R. Sanders -- Pentecostalism in Latin America / Luis Rivera-Pagan -- Apocalypticism in North America / Bruce Forbes -- Catholicism in China / Jean-Paul Wiest -- Secularism in western Europe / Valerie DeMarinis -- Innovation and authenticity -- Ecumenism of the people / Patrick Henry -- Gendering the faith / Margaret Bendroth -- Canadian workers' social justice / Oscar Cole-Arnal -- Expanding sexual ethics / Christina L.H. Traina -- Life and death in middle America / Ann Pederson.