RT Book
T1 Decolonization and the remaking of Christianity
A2 Foster, Elizabeth Ann 1976-
A2 Greenberg, Udi E. 1980-
LA English
PP Philadelphia
PB University of Pennsylvania Press
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1860994938
AB In the decades following the era of decolonization, global Christianity experienced a seismic shift. While Catholicism and Protestantism have declined in their historic European strongholds, they have sustained explosive growth in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. This demographic change has established Christians from the Global South as an increasingly dominant presence in modern Christian thought, culture, and politics.Decolonization and the Remaking of Christianity unearths the roots of this development, charting the metamorphosis of Christian practice and institutions across five continents throughout the pivotal years of decolonization. The essays in this collection illustrate the diverse new ideas, rituals, and organizations created in the wake of Western imperialism s formal collapse and investigate how religious leaders, politicians, theologians, and lay people debated and shaped a new Christianity for a postcolonial world.Contributors argue that the collapse of colonialism and broader cultural challenges to Western power fostered new organizations, theologies, and political engagements across the world, ultimately setting Christianity on its current trajectory away from its colonial heritage. These essays interrogate decolonization s varied and conflicting impacts on global Christianity, while also providing a novel framework for rethinking decolonization s modern legacies. Taken together, this book charts the relationship between decolonization and Christianity on a truly global scale.Contributors: Joel Cabrita, Darcie Fontaine, Elizabeth A. Foster, Udi Greenberg, David Kirkpatrick, Eric Morier-Genoud, Phi-Vân Nguyen, Justin Reynolds, Sarah Shortall, Lydia Walker, Charlotte Walker-Said, Albert Wu, Gene Zubovich
CN JV321
SN 9781512824971
K1 Christianity : 20th century
K1 Christianity : Developing countries
K1 Decolonization
K1 Christentum
K1 Colonialism & imperialism
K1 General & world history
K1 Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
K1 Geschichte der Religion
K1 HISTORY / World
K1 Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
K1 POL045000
K1 Politics & government
K1 Politik und Staat
K1 Christianity
K1 History of religion
K1 Religion / Christianity / History
K1 Billy Graham
K1 Catholicism
K1 Asia
K1 India
K1 Latin American Bishops
K1 Pentecostal Assemblies of God
K1 Pope Francis
K1 Portuguese empire
K1 Protestant
K1 United Nations
K1 United States
K1 World Council of Churches
K1 activist
K1 case study
K1 colonization
K1 freedom equality in Christ
K1 history of Christianity
K1 Africa
K1 national religious meetings
K1 post-colonial history
K1 statehood
K1 theology
K1 twentieth century
K1 world history
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
DO 10.9783/9781512824971