Ustorf / Löffler Robinson Crusoe tries again

Missiology and European Constructions of “Self” and “Other” in a Global World 1789–2010
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-647-60444-2
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 271 Seiten

Reihe: Research in Contemporary Religion (RCR)

The Christian experience in modern Europe is fragmented. It shows great diversity in various geographical contexts and, historically, a considerable alternation of extremes, high or low tides of engagement. One aspect of the Christianity in Europe’s past is its mission history. The spread of Christianity from the West – as one of its most important results – into the continents of the Global South has been deeply ambivalent in character. On the one hand, the mission from the West helped to build the historical foundations for Christian education, “adolescence” and maturation to responsible “adulthood” in a global, diverse, segregated and pluralistic world. As a mature global player, Christianity was in a prime position to contribute to peaceful conflict resolution, in the religious, social and political fields. On the other hand, the darkness and utter insufficiency of the encounter between the European, Christian “self” and the many “others” worldwide brought along problematic projections of different beliefs attacked in a hostile way as “alien” and, inevitably, as “conquered”. The consequences, particularly for the “primal other” – the indigenous people – were often disastrous. Werner Ustorf has been a leading missiologist worldwide for thirty years. This book not only analyses the interaction between mission and individual, the construction of the “self” and the “other” in a mission context, but also proves the analytical strength of theology in conceptualizing future Christian experiences in Europe. Ustorf illustrates that apart from traditional dimension of faith, a non-religious interpretation and critical trust in transcendence, is crucial for the formation of the new interculturation of Christianity in Europe. Thus, this book demonstrates how mission history can be transformed to a research concept for a global and pluralistic Christianity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ustorf, Werner

Löffler, Roland

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Title Page;4
3;Copyright;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Body
;8
6;Roland Löffler Introduction. Robinson Crusoe tries again or: Werner Ustorf ’s way of developing missiology into a research concept of global and pluralistic Christianity;8
7;Part I: Religion in a Revolutionary Age ;20
8;1. Bremen: Believing Revolutionaries – Revolutionary Believers;22
9;2. London: Equiano and the Black Spirituality of Freedom;32
10;3. Weimar: the Fusion of the Enlightenment and Christianity according to Herder;47
11;Part II: Religion in the Colonial Twilight ;58
12;4. Dreams of Empire and the Christian Transcendent;60
13;5. AWounded Healer : the Missionary Self;75
14;6. Cognitive Violence: the Missionary as a Scholar;87
15;7. Protestant Missions – a Retrospective;101
16;Part III: Dark Transcendence: the Totalitarian Resurrection;114
17;8. Prophet of Post-Christianity – Hauer’s Project of Liberating the “Nordic Soul”;116
18;9. Strange Attraction: the Missions and the “Brown” Revival;134
19;10. Theological Discernment: “Political Religion”;147
20; 11. The Muscular Church: Three Drafts of a Post-War Christian Europe ;175
21;Part IV: Church Decline and Religious Innovation in “God’s Continent” ;188
22;12. Reverse Mission – Treating Europeans as Africans;190
23;13. Charting the Future – Mapmakers and Local Scouts;204
24;14. The Rediscovery of “Primal” Religion;217
25;15. Theological Responses to Europe’s Multi-Religious Turn;239
26;Postscript;252
27;Bibliography Werner Ustorf, 1975–2010;256
28;List of PhD Theses supervised by Werner Ustorf at his Chair of Mission, University of Birmingham and awarded between 1993 and 2009;266
29;Index of Persons ;270
30;Back Cover
;274

Über Autor(innen)

Ustorf, Werner
Dr. theol. Werner Ustorf is Professor of Mission Studies in Birmingham.

Löffler, Roland
Dr. theol. Roland Löffler is Director of the thematic area on 'Trialogue of Cultures' at Herbert Quandt-Stiftung, Bad Homburg.