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The Routledge companion to Christianity in Africa / edited by Elias Kifon Bongmba.
LIBRA BR1360 .R68 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge religion companions
- Routledge Religion Companions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity--Africa.
- Christianity.
- Africa.
- Africa--Church history.
- Church history.
- Genre:
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 577 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Edition:
- 1 [edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge-Taylor & Francis, 2016.
- Contents:
- Part I. Selected historical perspectives. Christianity in North Africa / Elias Kifon Bongmba
- Christianity in Egypt: the Coptic Church / Youhanna Nessim Youssef
- Early Christian discourses and literature in North African Christianities in the context of Hellenistic Judaism and Graeco-Roman culture / Gerhard van den Heever
- Historical perspectives on West African Christianity / Robert M. Baum
- Early Central African Christian history: prophets, priests and kings / Sara Fretheim
- Christianity in East Africa / Loreen Maseno
- The cross in Ethiopian Christianity: Ecclesial symbolism and religious experience / Jon Abbink
- The Bible in an African Christianity: South African Black theology / Gerald West
- Christianity and translation in the colonial context / Musa W. Dube
- Women in African Christianities / Esther Mombo
- Part II. Modern developments and interreligious encounters. Mission practice and theory in Africa / Frans Wijsen
- Evangelicals: rereading Ethiopian Pentecostals and evangelism / Tibebe Eshte
- African Christianity in the post-Vatican II era / Clement Majawa
- Ecumenism in African Christianity / J.N.K. Mugambi
- Christianity and African religion: historical dynamics of the encounter / Laurenti Magesa
- Muslim-Christian relations in Africa: an overview of centuries of personal encounters / Festo Mkenda
- Part III. African initiative in Christianity. African initiated Christianity in Southern Africa / Ezra Chitando
- Pentecostalism in Eastern Africa / Martina Prosén
- Pentecostalism in Southern Africa / Allan H. Anderson
- African Christianity and transnational religious networks: from Africa to America and back to Africa / Moses O. Biney
- Part IV. Christianity, politics, and development. Christianity and politics in West Africa / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
- Christendom in crisis: the Catholic Church and postcolonial politics in Central Africa / J.J. Carney
- Christianity and politics in Southern Africa 1960-2013 / James N. Amanze
- Christianity and apartheid in South Africa / Robert Vosloo
- The African church and development / Richard S. Maposa
- Approaches to religion and the environment in Africa / Ernst M. Conradie
- Part V. Ecclesial life and lived experience. Church music in Africa: Space for inculturation and transformation / Emily Achieng Akuno
- Christianity and sexuality in Africa / Matthews A. Ojo and Adewale J. Adelakun
- Christianity and same-sex relationships in Africa / Adriann van Klinken
- From medical missions to church health services / Elias Kifon Bongmba
- Christianity and healing in Africa: the Anglican Church's Holy Cross Community in Zimbabwe / Tabona Shoko
- Religion, human rights and the future of humanity: some reflections / N. Barney Pityana
- Studying African Christianity: future trajectories / Elias Kifon Bongmba.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415705028
- 0415705029
- OCLC:
- 913573086
- Publisher Number:
- 99967063785
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