Christianity in the twentieth century : a world history / Brian Stanley.

Chapter 1. Wars and rumors of wars: the response of British and American churches to the First World War. The global religious legacy of the First World War ; The British churches: the religious legacy of the First World War ; Fighting for the faith: American fundamentalism between the wars ; Divergent Christian responses
Chapter 2. Holy nations? Uneasy marriages between Christianity and nationalism. Christianity and the diffusion of nationalism ; Protestant nationalism in Korea: Christianity, anticolonialism, and national identity ; Catholic nationalism in Poland: Mary as the queen of a dismembered nation ; Christianity and nationalism: uneasy bedfellows
Chapter 3. The power of the word and prophecy: pathways of conversion in Africa and the Pacific. The "Great Century" of conversion to Christianity ; Three West African prophet movements ; Conversion and revival movements in Melanesia ; The ambiguous power of the word
Chapter 4. Making war on the Saints: the Church under siege in France and the Soviet Union. Varieties of the secular ; The Catholic Church, the State, and religious practice in secular France ; Orthodox and Protestant churches in the Soviet Union ; The impotence of the secular state
Chapter 5. Contrasting patterns of belonging and believing: Scandinavia and the United States. Who is the exceptional case? ; Scandinavia: belonging without much believing ; The United States: changing patterns of belonging and believing ; Marriages of the religious and the secular
Chapter 6. Is Christ divided? : the ecumenical movement and its converse. Was the twentieth century the ecumenical century? ; Church union and disunion in the Indian subcontinent ; Christian unity and disunity in Republican and Communist China ; The failure and success of the ecumenical movement
Chapter 7. The voice of your brother's blood: Christianity, ethnic hatred, and genocide in Nazi Germany and Rwanda. Theories of race and vocabularies of ethnic hostility ; Race and religion in Nazi Germany ; The Church and ethnic conflict in Rwanda ; Christian prophecy and its failures
Chapater 8. Aliens in a strange land? Living in an Islamic context in Egypt and Indonesia. Christianity and religious plurality ; Coptic Christianity in Egypt ; the Church in Indonesia ; The politics of Christian survival
Chaper 9. That the world may believe: Christian mission to the modern world. From "making Jesus King" to the Missio Dei ; Reconceiving the Catholic Church and its mission: the Second Vatican Council, 1962-65 ; Reconceiving Protestant missions: the Uppsala Assembly of 1968 and the Lausanne Congress of 1974 ; Mission in a postcolonial age
Chapter 10. Good news to the poor? Theologies of liberation in Latin America and Palestine. The priority of praxis ; The origins of Latin American liberation theology ; Palestine: searching for liberation without exodus ; The God who acts
Chapter 11. Doing justice in South Africa and Canada: the humans rights agenda, race, and indigenous peoples. The Churches and human rights ideology ; Apartheid and the Churches ; The Canadian Churches and the residential schools ; From civilization to human rights
Chapter 12. A noise of war in the camp: human rights, gender, and sexuality. Egalitarianism and Christian tradition ; The ordination of women in Australian Anglicanism ; Debates over gay rights in the American Churches ; Christian culture wars
Chapter 13. The Spirit and the spirits: global Pentecostal Christianities. The new Pentecost ; Pentecostal Christianities in Ghana ; Pentecostalism in Brazil ; The religious chameleon
Chapter 14. The Eastern Orthodox Church and the modern world. The westward diffusion of Eastern Orthodoxy in the twentieth century ; Orthodoxy in Greece and Turkey: ethnic cleansing, nationalism, and the Holy Mountain of Athos ; New strands of Orthodoxy in twentieth-century Africa ; Tradition and change in the Orthodox world
Chapter 15. Migrant churches. Migration and the making of world Christianity ; The black exodus from the American South and Jamaica ; Chinese migrant churches: trans-Pacific connections ; Migration and the reshaping of Christianity in the West.