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Globalisierung der Kirchen

Der Ökumenische Rat der Kirchen und die Entdeckung der Dritten Welt in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-3-525-55773-0
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Erscheinungstermin: 22.01.2014
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The churches are among the most important global actors, operating locally while also belonging to a larger transnational network. This can be seen in the World Council of Churches (WCC), the most important international representative of non-Roman Catholic Christianity, which first developed into a truly global non-governmental organization during the 1960s and 1970s. While the founding of the WCC in 1948 was above all the work of European and North American churches, representatives of the “Third World” took greater control of the organization in the wake of the decolonization, de-Westernization, and revolutionary upheavals of the early 1960s.The positive effects of this more comprehensive globalization can be seen in the growing presence of representatives from Africa, Asia, and Latin America in the WCC. However, as this volume demonstrates in contributions from scholars in the fields of global history and theology, the process of globalization also led to new theological and cultural conflicts that threatened to destabilize the ecumenical movement. New areas of international church cooperation included engagement with development questions, a commitment to human rights and the liberation of the oppressed, and the struggle against racism. In one of its most important contributions, this volume shows how the globalization of the churches gradually brought an end to the exclusively Western profile of the WCC and worldwide Protestantism.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9783525557730
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-3-525-55773-0
  • Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
  • Erscheinungstermin: 22.01.2014
  • Sprache(n): Deutsch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2014
  • Serie: Arbeiten zur Kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte
  • Produktform: Gebunden, mit 24 Abb., 10 Graphiken u. einer Tab.
  • Gewicht: 760 g
  • Seiten: 379
  • Format (B x H x T): 160 x 31 x 237 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Annegreth Schilling promovierte zur Repräsentation Lateinamerikas im ÖRK in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren und arbeitete von 2008–2011 als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im DFG-Forschungsprojekt „Globalisiertes Christentum“. Seit 2011 lehrt und forscht sie am Lehrstuhl für Ökumenik und Dogmatik an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen im Bereich von Ökumenischer Theologie, Kirchlicher Zeitgeschichte sowie Missions- und Kulturwissenschaften.

Dr. Katharina Kunter ist Professorin für Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte an der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Helsinki.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Nicolai Hannig ist Professor für Neuere Geschichte an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt.

The churches are among the most important global actors, operating locally while also belonging to a larger transnational network. This can be seen in the World Council of Churches (WCC), the most important international representative of non-Roman Catholic Christianity, which first developed into a truly global non-governmental organization during the 1960s and 1970s. While the founding of the WCC in 1948 was above all the work of European and North American churches, representatives of the “Third World” took greater control of the organization in the wake of the decolonization, de-Westernization, and revolutionary upheavals of the early 1960s.

The positive effects of this more comprehensive globalization can be seen in the growing presence of representatives from Africa, Asia, and Latin America in the WCC. However, as this volume demonstrates in contributions from scholars in the fields of global history and theology, the process of globalization also led to new theological and cultural conflicts that threatened to destabilize the ecumenical movement. New areas of international church cooperation included engagement with development questions, a commitment to human rights and the liberation of the oppressed, and the struggle against racism. In one of its most important contributions, this volume shows how the globalization of the churches gradually brought an end to the exclusively Western profile of the WCC and worldwide Protestantism.