History of Global Christianity, Vol. III

History of Christianity in the 20th Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-47027-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 1243 g

The third volume of History of Global Christianity addresses the 20th century. An international cast of (Church) historians and Religious Studies scholars relate the developments in this century, from the World Wars into postmodern times. The century is discussed along chronological and geographical lines, as the other volumes, but also focuses on more thematical issues such as Ecumenism, Antisemitism and Human Rights.

Contributors are: Andrew Chandler, Melanie Duguid-May, Siegfried Hermle, Katharina Kunter, Frieder Ludwig, Gerard Mannion, Harry Oelke, Jens Holger Schjørring, Ulrike Schröder, Kevin Ward.

This is part of a three volume work on the history of global Christianity. The first two volumes cover the periods from 1500-1789 and the 19th century (published 2017).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schjørring, Jens Holger

A Hjelm, Norman

Ward, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword Volume iii

List of Contributors

Introduction, 20th Century, Volume iii

Jens Holger Schjørring

Part 1
Decades

1 Christianity in the First World War

Jens Holger Schjørring

2 Christianity in Europe and North America between the World Wars, 1918–c. 1939

Andrew Chandler

3 Second World War

Harry Oelke

4 Christianity in Europe and North America in the Age of the Cold War

Andrew Chandler

Part 2
Themes

5 Christianity, Human Rights, and Socio-Ethical Reorientations

Katharina Kunter

6 The Ecumenical Movement

Melanie Duguid-May

7 Vatican II: How the First Global Council Transformed Catholicism

Gerard Mannion

8 Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, and Reorientation

Siegfried Hermle

9 Christianity in the Context of Other World Religions: Interreligious Dynamics and Developments in the 20th Century

Frieder Ludwig and Ulrike Schröder

Part 3
Continents

10 The Christian Century? A History of Christianity in North America, 1900–2000

Heath W. Carter

11 Christianity in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 20th Century

Veit Strassner

12 African Christianity in the Twentieth Century

Akintunde E. Akinade

13 African Christianity in the 20th Century – Part Two

Kevin Ward

14 Christianity in the Middle East, 1917–2017

Mitri Raheb

15 Christianities in Asia in the Twentieth Century (1910–2010)

Peter C. Phan

16 Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania

Geoffrey Troughton

17 Christianity in Russia and Eastern Europe

Thomas Bremer

18 Christianity in Europe

Grace Davie

Conclusions

Kevin Ward

Index of Names

Index of Places

Über Autor(innen)

Jens Holger Schjørring, Dr. Theol. (Aarhus University), is Professor of Church History emeritus at Aarhus University, Denmark. His publications include Theologische Gewissensethik und politische Wirklichkeit: Das Beispiel Eduard Geismars und Emmanuel Hirschs (1979) and Ökumenische Perspektiven des deutschen Kirchenkampfes (1985) and studies of the relationship between African and European churches and those of Eastern Europe under Communist rule.

Norman A. Hjelm, Teol.Dr. (h.c.) (Uppsala University, 2009), has been senior theological editor and director of Fortress Press in the United States, an executive with the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva, Switzerland, and an ecumenical officer for the National Council of Churches in the U.S. Most recently he has contributed to The Finnish and Estonian Churches during the Cold War (2016) and to The North American Christian Community and the Cold War (2017).