Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Asia 1450-1600 -- A. Christians in Asia before the Arrival of the Portuguese -- B. Early Portuguese Contacts -- C. The Organization of Colonial Churches -- D. Francis Xavier in Asia (1542-1552) -- E. Intercultural Contacts -- F. Forms of Local Christianity -- G. St. Thomas Christians and the Portuguese before 1599 -- II. Asia 1600-1800 -- A. Forms of Catholic Presence -- B. Accommodation Strategies and the Rites Controversy -- C. Colonial Forms of Protestantism -- D. Indigenous Forms of Christianity -- E. Tranquebar 1706 and Its Consequences -- III. Asia 1800-1890 -- A. The General Situation in the Early Nineteenth Century -- B. Southern Asia: A New Beginning in Serampore (1800) -- C. Mission as a Means of Modernization -- D. Public Response, Non-Christian Voices -- E. Northeast Asia: A Forced Opening -- F. Indigenous Versions of Christianity -- IV. Asia 1890-1945 -- A. Religious Revival and Political Nationalism -- B. Attempts at Indigenization in the Protestant Churches -- C. Local Ecumenical Initiatives and Edinburgh 1910 -- D. Developments in Catholic Asia -- E. Independent Church Movements -- F. Developments in the 1920s and 1930s -- G. The Asian Churches during World War II -- V. Asia 1945-1990 -- A. The Churches and Nation Building in the 1950s -- B. Under Communist Rule -- C. Developments in the 1960s -- D. Trends at the End of the 1980s -- I. Africa 1450-1600 -- A. Ancient African Christianity -- B. European Expansion and New Discoveries -- C. Encounters -- D. African Catholicism in the Congo -- E. Ethiopia and Portugal -- II. Africa 1600-1800 -- A. Slave Trade -- B. Catholic Rulers -- C. Catholic Experiments and Failures -- D. Protests against the Slave Trade -- III. Africa 1800-1890 -- A. Abolition of the Slave Trade and Mission -- B. New Missionary Societies -- C. Livingstone and Other "Explorers" -- D. Mission Initiatives and African Rulers -- E. African Christian Elite -- IV. Africa 1890-1945 -- A. "Scramble for Africa" -- B. Concepts of Ecclesiastical Independence -- C. Developments within the Roman Catholic Church -- D. Themes of the 1920s and 1930s -- E. National Movements and Christianity -- V. Africa 1945-1990 -- A. "Wind of Change" -- B. African Churches and Nation Building -- C. African Theology -- D. Church and Apartheid in South Africa -- E. Conflicts and New Beginnings -- I. Latin America 1450-1600 -- A. The First Encounters and the Perspectives of Victor and Victim -- B. Legitimation and Criticism of the Conquest -- C. Establishment of Colonial Church Structures -- D. Mission and Missionaries -- E. Religious Dialogue and Ethnographic Works -- F. Failed Approaches to Indian Christianity -- II. Latin America 1600-1800 -- A. Church and Mission in Colonial Society -- B. Indian and Mestizo Voices -- C. The Reductions (Settlements) of the Jesuits and Their Purpose -- D. Slavery -- E. Colonial Protestantism -- F. Heralds of Independence -- III. Latin America 1800-1890 -- A. On the Path to Independence -- B. Rome and the New Countries -- C. Popular Religion and the State of the Church and the Missions -- D. Protestantism -- IV. Latin America 1890-1945 -- A. Catholicism Becomes More Roman and European -- B. Confessional Pluralization -- C. Faces of Latin American Catholicism -- D. The Emergence of the Social Question -- V. Latin America 1945-1990 -- A. The Path to a New Latin American Christianity -- B. The Second Vatican Council and Its Reception -- C. The Conflict on the Theology of Liberation -- D. Developments of Protestantism -- E. Awakening and Multiplicity.