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