Christianity and the African imagination : essays in honour of Adrian Hastings / edited by David Maxwell with Ingrid Lawrie.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Maxwell, David, 1963-
• Lawrie, Ingrid.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Christianity--Africa.
• Christianity.
• Spirituality.
• Africa.
• Spirituality--Africa.
• Hastings, Adrian.

Genre:

• Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xii, 421 pages : illustrations, map, portrait ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Contents:

• A Kongo princess, the Kongo ambassadors and the papacy / Richard Gray
• Africa as the theatre of Christian engagement with Islam in the nineteenth century / Andrew F. Walls
• The Bubandan Christian revolution: the Catholic Church in Buddu, 1879-1896 / John Mary Waliggo
• Taking on the missionary's task: African spirituality and the mission churches of Manicaland in the 1930s / Terence Ranger
• Christianity and the logic of nationalist assertion in Wole Soyinka's Ìsarà / J.D.Y. Peel
• Kikuyu Christianities: a history of intimate diversity / John Lonsdale
• Archbishop Janani Luwum: the dilemmas of loyalty, opposition and witness in Amin's Uganda / Kevin Ward
• Pentecostalism and neo-traditionalism: the religious polarization of a rural district in southern Malawi / Matthew Schoffeleers
• A traditional religion reformed: Vincent Kwabena Damuah and the Afrikania Movement, 1982-2000 / Samuel Gyanfosu
• Christianity without frontiers: Shona missionaries and transnational Pentecostalism in Africa / David Maxwell
• The shaping of a prophet: the African career and writings of Adrian Hastings / Ingrid Lawrie
• Adrian Hastings's bibliography, 1950-2002 / Ingrid Lawrie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9004245103
• 9789004245105

OCLC:

847724610