Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Apostles of Secularization: The Ecumenical Movement and the Making of Postcolonial Protestantism in the 1950s and 1960s 12
5. 2. From Order to Revolution: American Ecumenical Protestants and the Colonial World, 1900–1970 32
6. 3. Vietnamese Catholics’ Search for Independence, 1941–1963 51
7. 4. Jin Luxian, Chinese Catholicism, and the Horizontal Networks of Decolonization 67
8. 5. Decolonizing Global Evangelicalism: The Latin American Evangelical Left in the Shadow of the Cold War 86
9. 6. At the Crossroads of East and West: Christianity and the Legacy of Colonialism in North Africa 105
10. 7. Church and State in the Struggle for Human Rights and Economic Dignity in Central Africa at the End of Empire 125
11. 8. A Fractured Church: Catholicism and Decolonization in Mozambique 141
12. 9. Contesting Christian Nationalisms in Pre-Independence Swaziland 162
13. 10. “International Law as God’s Law”: The Promise and Limits of Christian-Suffused Nationalisms After Empire 183
14. 11. Decolonizing Theology: EATWOT and the Rise of Third World Theologies 198
15. Notes 219
16. List of Contributors 267
17. Index 271
18. Acknowledgments 281