Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-323) and index.

1. The Legacy of Anti-Modernism -- 2. Dominican and Jesuit Pioneers -- 3. The Vatican Council: Early Stages -- 4. The Vatican Council: A New Vision -- 5. The Church of the Poor in Latin America -- 6. The Church in Conflict -- 7. Radicals and Liberals in the Philippines and South Africa -- 8. Democracy and Nationalism in Africa -- 9. Inculturation and Dialogue with Islam -- 10. A Global Church in the Twenty-First Century.

"Global Catholicism charts the complex history of the forces of renewal unleashed on the Roman Catholic Church by the Second Vatican Council and the counter-forces that were mobilised against it during the last half century. Ian Linden offers a comprehensive analysis of how much the Catholic Church has lived up to the Council's promise, come to terms with pluralism, modernity, and different forms of spirituality and become a genuinely world Church, the only competitor to global Islam in the twenty-first century. He focuses notably on changes that had wider historical importance than the internal evolution of the Roman Catholic Church as a religious organisation: war and peace, nationalism and democratisation in Africa, liberation theology, military dictatorships, guerrilla movements in Latin America, Africa and Philippines, interaction with communist governments, inculturation and relations with resurgent Islam."--BOOK JACKET.