Introduction / Hugh McLeod -- Being a Christian in the early twentieth century / Hugh McLeod -- The papacy / John Pollard -- Ecumenism / David M. Thompson -- Christianity, colonialism and missions / Kevin Ward -- The pentecostal and charismatic movements / Allan Anderson -- Independency in Africa and Asia / Allan Anderson and Edmond Tang -- The great war / Michael Snape -- The Christian churches and politics in Europe, 1914-1939 / Martin Conway -- Latin America, c. 1914-c. 1950 / Christopher Abel -- African Christianity : from the world wars to decolonisation / Ogbu U. Kalu -- The African diaspora in the Caribbean and Europe from pre-emancipation to the present day / Roswith Gerloff -- Christianity in the United States during the inter-war years / Colleen McDannell -- Christian churches in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, 1914-1970 / Katharine Massam -- Catholicism and protestantism in the second world war in Europe / Andrew Chandler -- The Cold War, the hegemony of the United States and the golden age of Christian democracy / Dianne Kirby -- The religious ferment of the sixties / Michael Walsh -- The crisis of Christianity in the west : entering a post-Christian era? / Hugh McLeod -- The revolutions in eastern Europe and the beginnings of the post-communist era / Philip Walters -- The transformation of Latin American Christianity, c. 1950-2000 / Edward L. Cleary -- Religion and racism : struggles around segregation, "Jim Crow" and apartheid / Steve De Gruchy -- Post-colonial Christianity in Africa / David Maxwell -- South Asia, 1911-2003 / Chandra Mallampalli -- Christianity in south-east Asia, 1914-2000 / John Roxborogh -- East Asia / Richard Fox Young -- Liturgy / Bryan D. Spinks -- Relations between Christians and Jews, 1914-2000 / Daniel R. Langton -- Relations between Christians and Muslims / David Thomas -- Relations between Christians and Buddhists and Hindus / David Cheetham -- Theologies of religions / David Cheetham -- Wealth and poverty / Duncan B. Forrester -- Marriage and the family / Adrian Thatcher -- Homosexuality / David Hilliard -- Patriarchy and women's emancipation / Pirjo Markkola -- The Church as women's space / Pirjo Markkola -- Christianity and the sciences / Peter J. Bowler -- Literature and film / David Jasper -- Music and Christianity in the twentieth century / Andrew Wilson-Dickson -- Christianity and art / Jutta Vinzent -- Church architecture / Nigel Yates -- Role models / Hugh McLeod -- Being a Christian at the end of the twentieth century / Hugh McLeod.