A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: A Documentary SourcebookIn 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
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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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: A Documentary Sourcebook |
| Author | Roland Spliesgart |
| Editors | Klaus Koschorke, Frieder Ludwig, Mariano Delgado |
| Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1467425176, 9781467425179 |
| Length | 460 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Christianity / History |
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