IME, Christian & Muslim proselytizing has largely fallen along traditional and tribal divisions in places like West Africa, where one considers the populations there most viable for religious conversion.
Since that is the case, there is little more to gain from trying to grow membership within existing structures, and trying to poach people from the others generally hasn't been able to surmount the tribal barriers.
It seems to me, then, that the real threat to the likes of Anglicans in Africa (or Catholics everywhere, for that matter), aren't the Muslims, but fellow Christians who evangelise a more radical view on the religion.
So in 'battleground' places like Africa, parasitism is the only 'growth' pattern for these religious bodies.
Asia is marginally different, but there again, American evangelicals have been particularly effective vis-a-vis other Christians; but all fail since adoption is often conditional on the pre-existing panoply of beliefs.
So, where homosexuality is concerned, I don't particularly see an anti-homosexual Anglican doctrine being particularly useful in a Muslim-conversion campaign per se.
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I don't see the particular relevance of Islam in this...
Date: October 17th, 2003 09:45 am (UTC)From:Since that is the case, there is little more to gain from trying to grow membership within existing structures, and trying to poach people from the others generally hasn't been able to surmount the tribal barriers.
It seems to me, then, that the real threat to the likes of Anglicans in Africa (or Catholics everywhere, for that matter), aren't the Muslims, but fellow Christians who evangelise a more radical view on the religion.
So in 'battleground' places like Africa, parasitism is the only 'growth' pattern for these religious bodies.
Asia is marginally different, but there again, American evangelicals have been particularly effective vis-a-vis other Christians; but all fail since adoption is often conditional on the pre-existing panoply of beliefs.
So, where homosexuality is concerned, I don't particularly see an anti-homosexual Anglican doctrine being particularly useful in a Muslim-conversion campaign per se.