01644nam a22001457a 4500020001800000041000800018082001800026100002100044245008600065260005400151300000800205505024300213520096500456650007701421  a9781316339312  aENG  a276.5082bDAR  aDarcie Fontaine   a Decolonizing Christianity : Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria  a Cambridge University Press, b Cambridge,c 2016  a251  a
Christianity and French Algeria
Christianity on trial: the battle to define Christian morality
The metropolitans respond: the conflicts of politics and conscience
The religious politics of independence
Inventing postcolonial Christianity  aDecolonizing Christianity traces the dramatic transformation of Christianity from its position as the moral foundation of European imperialism to its role as a radical voice of political and social change in the era of decolonization. As Christians renegotiated their place in the emerging Third World, they confronted the consequences of racism and violence that Christianity had reinforced in European colonies. This book tells the story of Christians in Algeria who undertook a mission to 'decolonize the Church' and ensure the future of Christianity in postcolonial Algeria. But it also recovers the personal aspects of decolonization, as many of these Christians were arrested and tortured by the French for their support of Algerian independence. The consequences of these actions were immense, as the theological and social engagement of Christians in Algeria then influenced the groundbreaking reforms developing within global Christianity in the 1960s  aAlgeria Church history 20th centuryaDecolonizationaEntkolonialisierung