| Description |
xiii, 509 pages : maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-500) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The shape and flow of African church historiography / Ogbu U. Kalu -- African Christianity: an overview / Ogbu U. Kalu -- Early Christianity in north Africa / Kenneth Sawyer, Youhana Youssef -- Christianity in Sudan and Ethiopia / William B. Anderson, Ogbu U. Kalu -- Islamic challenges in African Christianity / Akintunde E. Akinade -- African chaplains in seventeenth century west Africa / David N.A. Kpobi -- Iberians and African clergy in southern Africa / Paul H. Gundani -- Back to Africa: white abolitionists and black missionaries / Jehu Hanciles -- The missionary factor in African Christianity, 1884-1914 / Chukwudi A. Njoku -- Ethiopianism in African Christianity / Ogbu U. Kalu -- Bakuzufu: revival movements and indigenous appropriation in African Christianity / Graham Duncan, Ogbu U. Kalu -- Zionists, Aladura, and Roho: African institution churches / Afe Adogame, Lazio Jafta -- African Christianity: from the world wars to decolonisation / Ogbu U. Kalu -- Mainline churches in the public space, 1975-2000 / J.W. Hofmeyr -- "Born of water and the spirit": Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity in Africa / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- Gender and power in African Christianity: African instituted churches and Pentecostal churches / Philomena Njeri Mwaura -- A new way of facilitating leadership: lessons from African women theologians / Nyambura J. Njoroge -- Half a century of African Christian theologies: elements of the emerging agenda for the twenty-first century / Tinyiko Sam Maluleke -- African Christian communities in diaspora / Afe Adogame -- Christianity and the African cultural heritage / J.N.K. Mugambi. |
| Summary |
It is ideologically driven to build a group of church historians who will tell the story of African Christianity, not Christianity in Africa, as an African story, by intentionally privileging the patterns of African agency without neglecting the noble roles played by missionaries. The effort has been to identify the major themes or story lines in African encounters and in the appropriation of the gospel. --from publisher description. |
| Subject |
Christianity -- Africa.
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Africa -- Church history.
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Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00859599
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Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
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| Genre/Form |
Church history. (OCoLC)fst01411629
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| Added Author |
Kalu, Ogbu.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: African Christianity. Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)607719989 |
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Online version: African Christianity. Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)608024617 |
| ISBN |
1592215807 (hardcover) |
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9781592215805 (hardcover) |
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1592215815 (pbk.) |
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9781592215812 (pbk.) |
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