Decolonization and the remaking of Christianity / edited by Elizabeth A. Foster, and Udi Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foster, Elizabeth A., editor.

Greenberg, Udi, 1980- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Decolonization.

Christianity--Developing countries.

Christianity.

Developing countries.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Elizabeth A. Foster and Udi Greenberg

Apostles of secularization : the ecumenical movement and the making of postcolonial Protestantism in the 1950s and 1960s / Justin Reynolds

From order to revolution : American ecumenical Protestants and the colonial world, 1900–1970 / Gene Zubovich

Vietnamese Catholics’ search for independence, 1941–1963 / Phi-Vân Nguyen

Jin Luxian, Chinese Catholicism, and the horizontal networks of decolonization / Albert Wu

Decolonizing global evangelicalism : the Latin American evangelical left in the shadow of the Cold War / David C. Kirkpatrick

At the crossroads of East and West : Christianity and the legacy of colonialism in North Africa / Darcie Fontaine

Church and state in the struggle for human rights and economic dignity in Central Africa at the end of empire / Charlotte Walker-Said

A fractured church : Catholicism and decolonization in Mozambique / Eric Morier-Genoud

Contesting Christian nationalisms in pre-independence Swaziland / Joel Cabrita

“International law as God’s law” : the promise and limits of Christian-suffused nationalisms after empire / Lydia Walker

Decolonizing theology : EATWOT and the rise of third world theologies / Sarah Shortall.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781512824971

1512824976

OCLC:

1376195996