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A history of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: a documentary sourcebook
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W.B. Eerdmans
Publication Date
c2007
Language
English
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I. Asia 1450-1600
A. Christians in Asia before the Arrival of the Portuguese
B. Early Portuguese Contacts
C. Organization of Colonial Churches
D. Francis Xavier in Asia (1542-1552)
E. Intercultural Contacts
F. Forms of Local Christianity
G. St. Thomas Christians and the Portuguese before 1599
II. Asia 1600-1800
A. Forms of Catholic Presence
B. Accommodation Strategies and the Rites Controversy
C. Colonial Forms of Protestantism
D. Indigenous Forms of Christianity
E. Tranquebar 1706 and Its Consequences
III. Asia 1800-1890
A. General Situation in the Early Nineteenth Century
B. Southern Asia: A New Beginning in Serampore (1800)
C. Mission as a Means of Modernization
D. Public Response, Non-Christian Voices
E. Northeast Asia: A Forced Opening
F. Indigenous Versions of Christianity
IV. Asia 1890-1945
A. Religious Revival and Political Nationalism
B. Attempts at Indigenization in the Protestant Churches
C. Local Ecumenical Initiatives and Edinburgh 1910
D. Developments in Catholic Asia
E. Independent Church Movements
F. Developments in the 1920s and 1930s
G. Asian Churches during World War II
V. Asia 1945-1990
A. Churches and Nation Building in the 1950s
B. Under Communist Rule
C. Developments in the 1960s
D. Trends at the End of the 1980s
I. Africa 1450-1600
A. Ancient African Christianity
B. European Expansion and New Discoveries
C. Encounters
D. African Catholicism in the Congo
E. Ethiopia and Portugal
II. Africa 1600-1800
A. Slave Trade
B. Catholic Rulers
C. Catholic Experiments and Failures
D. Protests against the Slave Trade
III. Africa 1800-1890
A. Abolition of the Slave Trade and Mission
B. New Missionary Societies
C. Livingstone and Other "Explorers"
D. Mission Initiatives and African Rulers
E. African Christian Elite
IV. Africa 1890-1945
A. "Scramble for Africa"
B. Concepts of Ecclesiastical Independence
C. Developments within the Roman Catholic Church
D. Themes of the 1920s and 1930s
E. National Movements and Christianity
V. Africa 1945-1990
A. "Wind of Change"
B. African Churches and Nation Building
C. African Theology
D. Church and Apartheid in South Africa
E. Conflicts and New Beginnings
I. Latin America 1450-1600
A. First Encounters and the Perspectives of Victor and Victim
B. Legitimation and Criticism of the Conquest
C. Establishment of Colonial Church Structures
D. Mission and Missionaries
E. Religious Dialogue and Ethnographic Works
F. Failed Approaches to Indian Christianity
II. Latin America 1600-1800
A. Church and Mission in Colonial Society
B. Indian and Mestizo Voices
C. Reductions (Settlements) of the Jesuits and Their Purpose
D. Slavery
E. Colonial Protestantism
F. Heralds of Independence
III. Latin America 1800-1890
A. On the Path to Independence
B. Rome and the New Countries
C. Popular Religion and the State of the Church and the Missions
D. Protestantism
IV. Latin America 1890-1945
A. Catholicism Becomes More Roman and European
B. Confessional Pluralization
C. Faces of Latin American Catholicism
D. Emergence of the Social Question
V. Latin America 1945-1990
A. Path to a New Latin American Christianity
B. Second Vatican Council and Its Reception
C. Conflict on the Theology of Liberation
D. Developments of Protestantism
E. Awakening and Multiplicity.
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