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
ASIA | 3 |
a Visiting a Church in Calicut 1498 | 9 |
a The Raising of Goa to the Seat of the Bishopric 1534 b Complaints about the Immorality of Settlers and Clergy | 15 |
E Intercultural Contacts | 21 |
ASIA 16001800 | 30 |
27 | 42 |
34 | 49 |
39 | 55 |
African Christians and Adaptation of European Ideas | 214 |
Pastor Robert Kwamis Luther Play 1900 B Concepts of Ecclesiastical Independence 215 | 215 |
171 | 219 |
174 | 226 |
Olaudah Equiano on His Enslavement 1789 | 232 |
E National Movements and Christianity | 238 |
194 | 244 |
B African Churches and Nation Building | 249 |
Conference 1806 C Mission as a Means of Modernization | 62 |
A Forced Opening | 69 |
F Indigenous Versions of Christianity | 78 |
ASIA 18901945 | 85 |
B Attempts at Indigenization | 89 |
68 | 92 |
Developments in Catholic Asia | 97 |
Kanzo Uchimuras NonChurch 1901 | 104 |
F Developments in the 1920s and 1930s | 106 |
G The Asian Churches during World War II | 112 |
87 | 114 |
Japanese Christians Confession | 118 |
B Under Communist Rule | 119 |
Trends at the End of the 1980s | 132 |
E Ethiopia and Portugal | 154 |
A Slave Trade | 160 |
Catholic Experiments and Failures | 168 |
AFRICA 18001890 | 184 |
Livingstone and Other Explorers | 194 |
165 | 204 |
AFRICA 18901945 | 208 |
168 | 212 |
E Conflicts and New Beginnings | 267 |
B Legitimation and Criticism of the Conquest | 282 |
Criticism of | 289 |
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 |
Franciscans in California 1787 | 334 |
F Heralds of Independence | 340 |
LATIN AMERICA 18001890 | 346 |
Report on a Former Reduction 1825 | 359 |
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 |
423 | |