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Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel / Barbara M. Cooper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Barbara MacGowan.
- Series:
- African systems of thought.
- African systems of thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sudan Interior Mission.
- SIM (Organization).
- Missions--Niger.
- Missions.
- Christianity and other religions--Islam.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Islam--Relations--Christianity.
- Islam.
- Christianity--Niger.
- Christianity.
- Islam--Niger.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (481 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Barbara M. Cooper looks closely at the Sudan Interior Mission, an evangelical Christian mission that has taken a tenuous hold in a predominantly Hausa Muslim area on the southern fringe of Niger. Based on sustained fieldwork, personal interviews, and archival research, this vibrant, sensitive, compelling, and candid book gives a unique glimpse into an important dimension of religious life in Africa. Cooper's involvement in a violent religious riot provides a useful backdrop for introducing other themes
- Contents:
- Introduction: fundamental differences
- Anatomy of a riot
- Love and violence
- From "Satan's masterpiece" to "the social problem of Islam"
- A Hausa spiritual vernacular
- African agency and the growth of the church in the Maradi Region, 1927-1960
- Disciplining the Christian : defining elderhood, Christian marriage, and "God's work," 1933-1955
- "An extremely dangerous suspect" : from Vichy-era travails to postwar triumph
- Impasses in vernacular education, 1945-1995
- Handmaid to the gospel : SIM's medical work in Niger, 1944-1975
- The tree of life : regenerating and gendering the garden after the fall, 1975-2000
- Ca bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu
- Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-453) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612072796
- 9781282072794
- 128207279X
- 9780253111920
- 0253111927
- OCLC:
- 476028537
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb09269 hdl
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