Hans Krabbendam

Saving the Overlooked Continent

American Protestant Missions in Western Europe, 1940-1975

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Produktbeschreibung

Livestream Recharge Lezing 'Missie Europa. Naoorlogse Amerikaanse pogingen om West-Europa te bekeren', dinsdag 13 oktober 2020, 19:30 tot 21:00 uur How American Protestant missionaries created a new worldwide religious network Among a wide spectrum of American Protestants, the horrors of World War II triggered grave concern for Europe¿s religious future. They promptly mobilised resources to revive Europe¿s Christian foundation. Saving the Overlooked Continent reconstructs this surprising redirection of Western missions. For the first time, Europe became the recipient of Americäs missionary enterprise. The American missionary impulse matched the military, economic, and political programs of the U.S., all of which positioned the United States to become Europe¿s dominant partner and point of cultural reference. One result was the importation of the internal conflicts that vexed American Protestants ¿ theological tensions between modernists and traditionalists, and organisational competition between established churches and independent parachurch associations. Europe was offered a new slate of options that sparked civic and ecclesiastical responses. But behind these contending religious networks lay a considerable overlap of goals and means based on a shared missionary trajectory. By the mid-1960s, most Protestant American agencies admitted that the expectation of a religious revival had been too optimistic despite their initiatives having led to an integration of Europe in the global evangelical network. The agencies reconsidered their assumptions and redefined their strategies. The initial opposition between inclusive and exclusive approaches abated, and the path opened to a sustained cooperation among once-fierce opponents. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Leuven University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 196mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9789462702578
• ISBN-10: 9462702578
• Artikelnr.: 60064134

Autorenporträt

Hans Krabbendam is director of the Catholic Documentation Centre at the Radboud University and scholar of U.S. religious history.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction
Discover! Emerging Religious Interest in Europe, 1780-1940
Expect! Wartime Prospects for Postwar Europe
Organize! Competition for Europe in the 1940s
To Work! Outreach in Europe, 1940s and 1950s
Meet the Europeans! Cooperation and Reconsideration in the 1960s
Let Go! Integration in the 1970s
Conclusion Abbreviations Bibliography Index of names, places and
organizations Colophon