Going above and beyond the subject of church history, History of Global Christianity deals with the cultural role of Christianity in its widest sense: from the many interactions of Christianity within society, politics, economics, philosophy and the arts, to the myriad of ventures that form civilizations, nations, and communities.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: European and Global Christianity in the Early Modern Period, ca. 1500–ca. 1800
• Part I: European and Global Christianity, ca. 1500–ca. 1800
• Chapter 1: Catholicism in Spain, Portugal, and their Empires
• Christianity in the New World and Beyond
• Spain
• Portugal
• 18th-Century Developments in the Spanish and Portuguese Area
• Concluding Considerations and Bibliography, Chapter 1
• Chapter 2: The Russian Church, 1448–1701
• Introduction, Chapter 2
• The Emergence of the Moscow Autocephaly
• Church and State in Moscow after 1448
• Diversity and Heresies
• The Dispute for Direction between “Possessors” and “Non-Possessors”
• The Time of Ivan IV (1530–1584)
• Poland-Lithuania: Confrontation with the West I
• Moscow and the Smuta: Confrontation with the West II
• Reforms I, Kiev
• Reforms II, Moscow
• Church and Culture on the Eve of Peter the Great
• Bibliography, Chapter 2
• Chapter 3: Christians under Ottoman Rule, 1453–1800
• Introduction, Chapter 3
• Christians in the Empire
• The Emergence of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
• The Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Response
• The Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople
• Aleppo, the Epicenter of the Uniate Movement
• Copts and Maronites
• Secular Politics and National Awakenings
• Muslim-Christian Relations in the Ottoman Empire
• Bibliography, Chapter 3
• Chapter 4: Christianity in Africa, 1500–1800
• Overview, Chapter 4
• Coptic Christianity
• A Note on Christianity in Nubia
• Ethiopian Christianity
• Portuguese Catholic Missionary Work in Africa
• The Christian Kingdom of Kongo
• The Portuguese in East Africa
• The Slave Trade and the Influx of North European Protestant Powers in Africa
• The Dutch in South Africa
• The Moravian Mission
• Conclusion and Bibliography, Chapter 4
• Chapter 5: Latin-European Christianity in the 16th Century
• Preliminary Considerations
• Latin-European Christianity around 1500
• The Reformation in the Empire (Up to 1530)
• European Reformation Processes
• Counter-Reformation and Catholic Reform
• Anabaptists, Spiritualists, and Minority Protestant Groups
• Decisions in the Empire
• Structures of Latin-European Christianity in the Confessional Age
• Bibliography, Chapter 5
• Chapter 6: Christianity in Asia, ca. 1500–1789
• Introduction, Chapter 6
• India
• Sri Lanka
• The Philippines
• Japan
• The Malay World
• Vietnam
• Siam (Thailand, since 1945)
• China
• Korea
• Bibliography, Chapter 6
• Chapter 7: Christianity in Europe: The 17th Century
• Europe – Empire – War
• Confession – Government – Society
• Religious Movements
• Cultures – Practices – Attitudes
• Bibliography, Chapter 7
• Chapter 8: Famine, Epidemics, War: The Triple Challenge of Central European Christianity, 1570–1720
• Introduction, Chapter 8
• The ‘Little Ice Age’ as Paradigm Shift and Its Religious Consequences
• Literature of Consolation and Edification
• From Fear to Hope in Eternal Life
• From Adversity to Repression
• The Search for the Fundamentals of the Divine Order of the World
• Religious Transformations as a Consequence of the Crises of the 17th Century
• Bibliography, Chapter 8
• Chapter 9: Christian Churches and Communities in North America to 1800
• Introduction, Chapter 9
• Early Spanish Colonies and Missions in North America
• The Beginnings of British North America
• New France and New Netherland
• The Expansion and Transformation of British North America to 1700
• The French and Spanish Colonies in the Eighteenth Century
• The Struggle for Dominance in North America
• The Changing Religious Landscape of British North America in the 18th Century
• The American Enlightenment
• The Protestant Awakening
• African American and Native Christianities
• Religion and the American Revolution
• Bibliography, Chapter 9
• Chapter 10: Christianity in 18th Century Europe
• Introduction, Chapter 10
• Church and State
• Pietism in Germany
• Radical Spiritual Communities
• The Bicentenary of the Reformation in 1717: an International Festival
• Christianity between Theology and Philosophy
• Württemberg Pietism, Swedenborg
• The Enlightenment
• Church, State and Society
• Germany: New Approaches to Religion
• Critical Biblical Research
• Nature, Culture, and Art
• Scandinavia
• Internal Affairs: the Emperor Versus the Roman Pontiff
• Philosophies as Bridges over Troubled Waters: Lessing, Herder, and Kant
• The French Revolution
• 16th to 18th Century: A Summary
• Bibliography, Chapter 10
• Summary and Outlook, Part I
• Part II: History of Christianity in the 19th century
• Foreword to Part II
• List of Contributors to Part II
• Introduction to Part II
• Chapter 11: Revolutions and the Church: The New Era of Modernity
• Introduction, Chapter 11
• A New Era?
• Revolution and War
• Conservative Triumph
• 1848
• The Dawn of Democracy
• Europe in a Globalising World
• Conclusion and Bibliography, Chapter 11
• Chapter 12: Roman Catholicism in the 19th Century
• Dechristianization and Violence: the French Revolution as a Founding Event in the History of European Christianity
• Types of Conflict: Europe's Catholicisms and the Modern Period from the Early 19th Century
• Ultramontanism and Infallibility: the First Vatican Council
• Culture Struggle and the Crisis of Modernism: European Catholicism after the First Vatican Council
• Bibliography, Chapter 12
• Chapter 13: The Protestant Missionary Movement in the 19th Century
• The Origins of Protestant Concern for Mission
• The Recruitment and Training of Missionaries
• The Mission Station: Family, Gender, Women, Children
• The Missionary Task: Bible Translation and Cultural Encounter
• Protestant Christian Education
• Euthanasia of the Mission
• Missions and Colonialism
• The Edinburgh Missionary Conference of 1910
• Bibliography, Chapter 13
• Chapter 14: Christianity in Russia, 1700-1917
• Contours of Russia from the Early 18th to the Early 20th Centuries
• Reforms of Peter the Great
• The Church Reform of Peter the Great
• The Synodal System in Practice in the 18th and 19th Centuries
• “Foreign Faiths”: Non-Conforming Christian Denominations
• Orthodox Missions
• Christian Spirituality and Thought in the Synodal Period
• The Orthodox Church in the Early 20th Century – until 1917
• Bibliography, Chapter 14
• Chapter 15: Christianity in 19th Century North America
• Introduction, Chapter 15
• Religious Freedom in the United States and Canada
• Pluralism and Tolerance
• Christian Nations
• Bibliography, Chapter 15
• Chapter 16: Latin America and the Caribbean in the 19th Century
• The Long Century
• The French Revolution
• The Enlightenment and Church Life
• Church Life on the Eve of Emancipation
• Church and Emancipation
• The Independence of Brazil
• Patronage and Liberalism
• Education and Training
• The Crisis of Christianitas in Latin America
• Rome and Latin American Catholicism
• Bibliography, Chapter 16
• Chapter 17: Christianity in 19th Century Africa
• Overview, Chapter 17
• New Developments in Mission
• Anti-Slavery in West Africa
• Southern Africa
• Eastern and Central Africa
• The Ancient Churches of Africa
• The Scramble for Africa and Missionary Collusion
• African Responses to Colonialism
• African Spiritual Renewal
• Conclusion, Chapter 17
• Bibliography, Chapter 17
• Chapter 18: Christianity in the Middle East, 1799-1917
• A Preliminary Remark on the Term “Middle East”
• Churches under Ottoman Rule
• Protestant Missions and the Emergence of Protestant Churches
• The Reaction of the Churches in the Middle East to Protestant Missions and the Formation of Protestant Churches
• The Transformation of the Christian Community in the 19th Century Middle East
• The Consequences of Empire
• Bibliography, Chapter 18
• Chapter 19: Asia in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
• Christian Asia Around 1800
• South Asia (Focusing on India): Mission as a Factor of Modernization
• Northeast Asia (China, Japan, Korea): The Opium Trade and the Smuggling of Bibles
• Thailand, Indochina, Indonesia, Philippines: A Plurality of Colonial and Extracolonial Contexts
• Indigenous Versions of Christianity
• Transregional Developments and Challenges since 1890: Colonialism, Nationalism, Revival of the Continent's Traditional Religions, the Beginnings of the Indigenization Movement in Christian Asia
• National Church Initiatives, the Early Asian Ecumenical Movement, and Networking among the Indigenous Christian Elites Around the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910
• Bibliography, Chapter 19
• Chapter 20: Christianity in the Context of Other World Religions
• Interreligious Relations in the 19th Century: Approaches and Concepts in Research
• Interreligious Contacts and Dynamics: A Brief Overview
• Case Studies
• Bibliography, Chapter 20
• Reflections and Outlook, Part II
• Part III: History of Christianity in the 20th century
• Foreword to Part III
• List of Contributors to Part III
• Introduction to Part III
• Chapter 21: Decades
• Christianity in the First World War
• Christianity in Europe and North America between the World Wars, 1918–c. 1939
• The Churches in the Second World War
• Christianity in Europe and North America in the Age of the Cold War
• Chapter 22: Themes
• Christianity, Human Rights, and Socio-Ethical Reorientations
• The Ecumenical Movement
• Vatican II: How the First Global Council Transformed Catholicism
• Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, and Reorientation
• Christianity in the Context of Other World Religions: Interreligious Dynamics and Developments in the 20th Century
• Chapter 23: Continents
• The Christian Century? A History of Christianity in North America, 1900–2000
• Christianity in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 20th Century
• African Christianity in the Twentieth Century – Part One
• African Christianity in the Twentieth Century – Part Two
• Christianity in the Middle East, 1917–2017
• Christianities in Asia in the Twentieth Century (1910–2010)
• Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
• Christianity in Russia and Eastern Europe
• Christianity in Europe
• Conclusion Part III