Abstract
Summary This article explores some of the deep structural and political transformations which the World Council of Churches underwent in the 1960s and 1970s. One of these changes included the growing proportion of new independent Christian churches in Africa and Asia, which had begun to join the WCC since 1961 as a result of the decolonisation process. This change marked the beginning of the de-Westernisation of the World Council of Churches, which transformed over the course of the »long sixties« (Marwick) from a mainly Anglo-American network to a modern international non-governmental organisation. Simultaneously, as the North-South conflict was coming into the centre, the East-West conflict began moving to the periphery of ecumenical debates.
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