This is the second of two volumes of essays from the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network's 14th International Conference focused on decolonizing churches and theology, addressing oppressions based on gender, racial, and ethnic identities;

1 Decolonial Horizons: An Introduction.- Part I Deimperialization, Sinodality, and Decoloniality.- 2 Ecclesiology as Method: Deimperialization as Fundamental Decoloniality.- 3 Decolonizing Synodality by Engaging Those at the Existential Peripheries.- 4 Synodality, Barlaam of Calabria on the Papacy, and Conciliar Theory.- Part II Reimagining Family and Gender Through a Decolonial Lens.- 5 Decolonial Moves Beyond “la igualdad hombre-mujer”—A Puerto Rican Case Study of Gender, Theology and Decolonial Thinking.- 6 Decolonizing Familial Metaphors for Nationhood: Reflective Nostalgia, Christology, and la Gran Familia Puerto Riqueña.- 7 Remembrance as Decolonial Practice.- Part III Decolonizing Mission.- 8 Panama, Montevideo and Havana and the Emergence of a De-colonial and Indigenous Latin American Protestant Identity: 1916–1929.- 9 Decolonizing the History of Mission: An Indonesian Lutheran Perspective.- 10 “Because of This Experience It Is Much Easier to Understand”: How Canadian Missionary Encounters with Minjung History Changed Them and Their Church.- Part IV Decolonizing Liberation, Social Justice, and Public Policy.- 11 Elite Capture and Decolonizing the Church of the Poor.- 12 No Holiness But Decolonial Holiness: Social Holiness, REHACE, and Decoloniality.- 13 Decolonizing the African Church in the Context of a Secular Public Policy.- 14 The Religion of Albizu: Spirituality in the Decolonizing Efforts of a Twentieth-Century Puerto Rican Independence Movement Leader.

This is the second of two volumes of essays from the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network's 14th International Conference focused on decolonizing churches and theology, addressing oppressions based on gender, racial, and ethnic identities; economic inequality; social vulnerabilities; climate change and global challenges such as pandemics, neoliberalism, and the role of information technology in modern society, all connected with the topic of decolonization.

The essays in this volume focus on decoloniality in empire, family, and mission, written from historical, dogmatic, social scientific, and liturgical perspectives.

Raimundo C. Barreto is an associate professor of World Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA. His most recent publications include Protesting Poverty: Protestants, Social Ethics and the Poor in Brazil (2023) and the co-edited volume Alterity and the Evasionof Justice in World Christianity (2023).

Vladimir Latinovic is a lecturer in Dogmatics, Ecumenism, and Orthodox theology in the Catholic Theological Faculty at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His recent noteworthy contribution involves the publication of a three-volume monograph series titled Christology and Communion (Aschendorff, 2018-2022).

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