A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: A Documentary Sourcebook

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Sep 14, 2007 - Religion - 426 pages
In cooperation with Roland Spliesgart

The map of world Christianity has changed dramatically in just the last century. Today the majority of Christians live in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, making Christianity a world religion as never before in history.

Given that global reality, Klaus Koschorke, Frieder Ludwig, and Mariano Delgado have created the first comparative documentary history of Christianity for these regions covering the period 1450-1990. Taking the changing ecumenical conditions into account, this volume enlarges the horizon of classical church historiography. In contrast to the prevailing Western perspectives on the history of Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, voice is given here to the multitude of local initiatives, specific experiences, and varieties of Christianity in very diverse cultural contexts -- addressing such questions as the colonial conquest, slavery, and the demand for ecclesiastical independence.

 

Contents

ASIA
3
B Early Portuguese Contacts
7
The Organization of Colonial Churches
13
E Intercultural Contacts
21
F Forms of Local Christianity
24
ASIA 16001800
30
Colonial Forms of Protestantism
41
Indigenous Forms of Christianity
45
The War against the Muslims in the Kings Chronicle
155
AFRICA 16001800
160
Catholic Experiments and Failures
168
Protests against the Slave Trade
179
AFRICA 18001890
184
Livingstone and Other Explorers
194
AFRICA 18901945
208
African Christians and Adaptation of European Ideas
214

ASIA 18001890
55
A New Beginning in Serampore 1800
58
Public Response NonChristian Voices
65
F Indigenous Versions of Christianity
78
ASIA 18901945
85
B Attempts at Indigenization
89
Kanzo Uchimuras NonChurch 1901
104
F Developments in the 1920s and 1930s
106
G The Asian Churches during World War II
112
Japanese Christians Confession
118
B Under Communist Rule
119
Trends at the End of the 1980s
132
Warning of Exaggerated Contextualization 1982
135
A New Urgency for Interreligious Dialogue 1986
136
AFRICA 14501600
139
a The Conversion of the Queen of Sheba
140
EthiopianEgyptian Contacts 1540
141
Traces of Nubian Christianity
142
B European Expansion and New Discoveries
143
The Papal Privileges of Portugal
144
Mission and Violence
145
Destruction of Eastern African City States 1505
146
Encounters
147
An African Ambassador from Benin in Portugal
148
b Local African Recollections
149
African Catholicism in the Congo
150
The Manikongo Complains about Unfit Priests 1514
151
Complaints about the Slave Trade 1526
153
E Ethiopia and Portugal
154
B Concepts of Ecclesiastical Independence
216
Orthodox and Independent
226
Themes of the 1920s and 1930s
232
E National Movements and Christianity
238
AFRICA 19451990
244
B African Churches and Nation Building
249
African Theology
255
Church and Apartheid in South Africa
261
E Conflicts and New Beginnings
267
Independent Churches and Democratization
274
B Legitimation and Criticism of the Conquest
282
Establishment of Colonial Church Structures
293
F Failed Approaches to Indian Christianity
308
LATIN AMERICA 16001800
313
B Indian and Mestizo Voices
321
The Reductions Settlements of the Jesuits
329
Slavery
335
LATIN AMERICA 18001890
346
B Rome and the New Countries
352
1805
358
Communities 1849
365
B Confessional Pluralization
371
The Cristiada 19261929
378
LATIN AMERICA 19451990
386
Second General Conference of the Episcopate
394
The Conflict on the Theology of Liberation
403
E Awakening and Multiplicity
412
acknowledgments
419
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Klaus Koschorke is professor and chairman of the Departmentof Church History at the University of Munich, Germany. " Frieder Ludwig teaches at Mission Seminary in Hermannsburg.

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