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Christianity and the African imagination : essays in honour of Adrian Hastings / edited by David Maxwell with Ingrid Lawrie.
LIBRA BR1360 .C475 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies on religion in Africa ; 23.
- Studies on religion in Africa
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity--Africa.
- Christianity.
- Africa.
- Christianity and culture--Africa.
- Christianity and culture.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.
- Summary:
- The book charts Christianity's advance in Africa, exploring how African agents (priests, prophets, martyrs, missionaries) made the religion their own. It shows Christianity empowering Africans, through faith, to deal with concerns for health and wealth, and overcoming evil. It demonstrates how Christianity captured the African imagination.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Christianity and the African Imagination / David Maxwell 1
- Chapter 1 A Kongo Princess, the Kongo Ambassadors and the Papacy / Richard Gray 25
- Chapter 2 Africa as the Theatre of Christian Engagement with Islam in the Nineteenth Century / Andrew F. Walls 41
- Chapter 3 The Bugandan Christian Revolution: The Catholic Church in Buddu, 1879-1896 / John Mary Waliggo 63
- Chapter 4 'Taking on the Missionary's Task': African Spirituality and the Mission Churches of Manicaland in the 1930s / Terence Ranger 93
- Chapter 5 Christianity and the Logic of Nationalist Assertion in Wole Soyinka's Isara / J.D.Y. Peel 127
- Chapter 6 Kikuyu Christianities: A History of Intimate Diversity / John Lonsdale 157
- Chapter 7 Archbishop Janani Luwum: The Dilemmas of Loyalty, Opposition and Witness in Amin's Uganda / Kevin Ward 199
- Chapter 8 Pentecostalism and Neo-Traditionalism: The Religious Polarization of a Rural District in Southern Malawi / Matthew Schoffeleers 225
- Chapter 9 A Traditional Religion Reformed: Vincent Kwabena Damuah and the Afrikania Movement, 1982-2000 / Samuel Gyanfosu 271
- Chapter 10 Christianity without Frontiers: Shona Missionaries and Transnational Pentecostalism in Africa / David Maxwell 295
- Chapter 11 The Shaping of a Prophet: The African Career and Writings of Adrian Hastings / Ingrid Lawrie 333
- Chapter 12 Adrian Hastings's Bibliography, 1950-2002 / Ingrid Lawrie 367
- Four Poems from Zaire / Donald Mackay 407.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-406) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004116680
- OCLC:
- 47825555
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