講題：World Christianity as a Polycentric Movement
講者：Prof. Klaus Koschorke（德國慕尼黑大學榮退教授）
時間：2025年11月27日（四）14:30-16:30
地點：中研院民族所2319會議室
簡介：
Christianity has understood itself as a worldwide movement from its very beginnings (Act 1,8; Mt 28,19). But its globalisation is not identical with its Europeanisation. Even in the colonial period, there existed always a multitude of regional centers of expansion, indigenous initiatives, local appropiations and cultural expressions.
The lecture will present a new book by Klaus Koschorke: A Short History of Christianity beyond the West: Asia, Africa and Latin America 1450-2000 (Brill: Leiden/Boston 2024). Focussing on diversity and interdependence, local actors and global affects, the book offers a compact and vivid overview over 550 years of Christian history in the global South.
As paradigm
for its comparative approach, the lecture will discuss the spread of religious
movements of independence in Christian Asia and Africa around 1900, with the
simultaneous rise of Independent Churches under black leadership (AIC’s) in
Africa and National Church Movements in Asia at that time. Very important in
this context had been the intensive debates about the ideal of the
“Three-Selves” – the goal of a “self-extending,
self-supporting and self-governing native Church”. Originally a missionary
concept developed around 1850, it turned into a slogan of emancipation for
indigenous Christian elites both in Africa and Asia insisting on the promise of
equality.
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