Contributor
Koschorke, Klaus.
Imprint:Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, c2007.
Descriptionxxxiii, 426 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:ASIA: Asia 1450-1600 -- Christians in Asia before the arrival of the Portuguese -- Early Portuguese contacts -- Organization of colonial churches -- Francis Xavier in Asia (1542-1552) -- Intercultural contacts -- Forms of local Christianity -- St. Thomas Christians and the Portuguese before 1599 -- Asia 1600-1800: Forms of Catholic presence -- Accommodation strategies and the rites controversy -- Colonial forms of Protestantism -- Indigenous forms of Christianity -- Tranquebar 1706 and its consequences -- Asia 1800-1890: The general situation in the early nineteenth century -- Southern Asia: a new beginning in Serampore (1800) -- Mission as a means of modernization -- Public response, non-Christian voices -- Northeast Asia: a forced opening -- Indigenous versions of Christianity -- Asia 1890-1945: Religious revival and political nationalism -- Attempts at indigenization in the Protestant churches -- Local ecumenical initiatives and Edinburgh 1910 -- Developments in Catholic Asia -- Independent church movements -- Developments in the 1920s and 1930s -- The Asian churches during World War II -- Asia 1945-1990: The churches and nation building in the 1950s -- Under Communist rule -- Developments in the 1960s -- Trends at the end of the 1980s.
Note:AFRICA: Africa 1450-1600 -- Ancient African Christianity -- European expansion and new discoveries -- Encounters -- African Catholicism in the Congo -- Ethiopia and Portugal -- Africa 1600-1800: Slave trade -- Catholic rulers -- Catholic experiments and failures -- Protests against the slave trade -- Africa 1800-1890: Abolition of the slave trade and mission -- New missionary societies -- Livingstone and other "explorers" -- Mission initiatives and African rulers -- African Christian elite -- Africa 1890-1845: "Scramble for Africa" -- Concepts of ecclesiastical independence -- Developments within the Roman Catholic Church -- Themes of the 1920s and 1930s -- National movements and Christianity -- Africa 1945-1990: "Wind of change" -- African churches and nation building -- African theology -- Church and apartheid in South Africa -- Conflicts and new beginnings.
Note:LATIN AMERICA: Latin America 1450-1600 -- The first encounters and the perspectives of victor and victim -- Legitimation and criticism of the conquest -- Establishment of colonial church structures -- Mission and missionaries -- Religious dialogue and ethnographic works -- Failed approaches to Indian Christianity -- Latin America 1600-1800: Church and mission in colonial society -- Indian and mestizo voices -- The reductions (settlements) of the Jesuits and their purpose -- Slavery -- Colonial Protestantism -- Heralds of independence -- Latin America 1800-1890: On the path to independence -- Rome and the new countries -- Popular religion and the state of the church and the missions -- Protestantism -- Latin America 1890-1945: Catholicism becomes more Roman and European -- Confessional pluralization -- Faces of Latin American Catholicism -- The emergence of the social question -- Latin America 1945-1990: The path to a new Latin American Christianity -- The second Vatican Council and its reception -- The conflict on the theology of liberation -- Developments of Protestantism -- Awakening and multiplicity.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
