Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish scholarly works of high merit on relations between believers of various streams of Christianity, as well as relations between believers of Christianity and other religions. We welcome studies from all disciplines, including multi- and interdisciplinary studies, which focus on intra- and inter-religious relations and are non-denominational.
Editorial Board
Francis Clooney (Cambridge, USA)
Fatimah Husein (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Jonathan Tan (Cleveland, USA)
Abdulkader Tayob (Cape Town, South Africa)
Jorge Castillo Guerra (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Transloyalties, Connected Histories and World Christianity during the Interwar Period: 1919-1939
1st Edition
Edited
By Frieder Ludwig, Ellen Vea Rosnes, Joar Haga, Marina Xiaojing Wang, Jairzinho Lopes Pereira
June 30, 2025
This book introduces the approach of “transloyalties” to study “connected histories” in World Christianity. The term “transloyalties” is used to analyze the multifaceted processes in various contact zones through which cultural and religious identities were transformed in the tension between ...
Transloyalties, Connected Histories and World Christianity during the Period of Decolonization and the Cold War: 1945-1970
1st Edition
Edited
By Frieder Ludwig, Ellen Vea Rosnes, Joar Haga, Marina Xiaojing Wang, Jairzinho Lopes Pereira
June 30, 2025
Focusing on the history of World Christianity, this book relates the concept of “transloyalties” to developments during the “Period of Decolonization and the Cold War.” This was a time when the terms “loyal” and “loyalty” became more frequently used, not only in the United States, where a “...
Sacred Sustainability, Polyhedral Christianity and Cosmic Challenges
1st Edition
By Jojo M. Fung
March 31, 2025
This book explores the concept of Polyhedral Christianity that has the capacity to embrace the inter/multicultural-religious complexities of our contemporary world, taking inspiration from Pope Francis’ use of the image of a polyhedron. The author suggests that Polyhedral Christianity calls for an ...
Christianity and Democracy Today: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By David P. Gushee, Paul Silas Peterson
March 05, 2025
This volume explores Christianity’s relationship with democracy in a global perspective. How are the various democratic ideals being addressed by influential Christian intellectuals, theologians, ethicists, churches and church leaders around the world today? The contributors reflect on the status ...
Confucian Timely Mean and Christian Discernment: Confucian-Christian Dialogue for Spirituality of Discernment and Applied Ethics
1st Edition
By Sung-Hae Kim
January 30, 2025
This book explores the notion of the timely mean, a virtue established in the Confucian tradition, in dialogue with the Christian understanding of discernment, especially as used in spirituality studies. It considers the historical development of these concepts, addressing the early encounter ...
Beyond Bantu Philosophy: Contextualizing Placide Tempels’s Initiative in African Thought
1st Edition
Edited
By Frans Dokman, Evaristi Magoti Cornelli
January 29, 2024
Franciscan priest Placide Tempels’s 1946 book, Bantu Philosophy, introduced a new discourse about African thought and beliefs, questioning the universality of Western philosophy and establishing paradigms that continue to dominate discussion of the relationships between Africa and the West today. ...
Catholicism in Migration and Diaspora: Cross-Border Filipino Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Gemma Tulud Cruz
January 29, 2024
This book focuses on the Philippines as a powerhouse in the Catholic and global migration landscape. It offers a wide-ranging look at the roles, dynamics, character, and trajectories of Catholic faith and practice in the age of migration through an interdisciplinary, religious, and theological ...
Religion, Power, and Society in Suriname and Guyana: Hindu, Muslim, and Christian Relations
1st Edition
By R. Kirtie Algoe
January 29, 2024
This book surveys the development of the religious landscape in Suriname and Guyana, focusing on the interaction between Hindus, Muslims, and Christians and responses to Christian dominance. It reflects on how and why these religiously diverse Caribbean societies are characterized by relative ...
Asian Christianity and Theology: Inculturation, Interreligious Dialogue, Integral Liberation
1st Edition
By Edmund Kee-Fook Chia
May 31, 2023
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of Asian Christianity and Theology, with emphasis on how it has developed in different parts of the continent and in the different eras, especially since the end of colonialism in Asia. Asian Theology refers to a unique way of theological reflection ...
Moral Pedagogies for Africa: From Ethnic Enmity to Responsible Cohabitation
1st Edition
Edited
By Theodros A. Teklu
May 31, 2023
This volume engages with issues of moral responsibility and multiethnic co-existence in the context of contemporary Africa. Post-colonial African states are by and large ethnically diverse. Constructively managing ethnic diversity, however, has always been a challenge to these states, which often ...
Christianity Across Borders: Theology and Contemporary Issues in Global Migration
1st Edition
By Gemma Tulud Cruz
January 09, 2023
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of key issues in contemporary global migration and considers the theological implications for Christianity, in general, and for Christian faith and practice in various parts of the world, in particular. Migrant Christians, who make up the majority of ...
Confucianism and Christianity: Interreligious Dialogue on the Theology of Mission
1st Edition
Edited
By Edmund Kee-Fook Chia
May 30, 2022
This book reflects on three broad themes of Confucian-Christian relations to assist in the appreciation of the church’s theology of mission. While the themes of this volume are theological in orientation, the dialogue is engaged in from an interdisciplinary approach that prioritises the act of ...