Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
A history of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990 : a documentary sourcebook
- Available as
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- edited by Klaus Koschorke, Frieder Ludwig & Mariano Delgado ; in cooperation with Roland Spliesgart
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
-
- xxxiii, 426 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0802828892, 9780802828897
- OCLC
- ocn137305732
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Machine generated contents note: I.Asia 1450-1600 -- A.Christians in Asia before the Arrival of the Portuguese -- B.Early Portuguese Contacts -- C.The 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.The 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.The Asian Churches during World War II -- V.Asia 1945-1990 -- A.The 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.The 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.The 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.The Emergence of the Social Question -- V.Latin America 1945-1990 -- A.The Path to a New Latin American Christianity -- B.The Second Vatican Council and Its Reception -- C.The Conflict on the Theology of Liberation -- D.Developments of Protestantism