Christian churches and Nigeria's political economy of oil and conflict : baptist and pentecostal perspectives / by Nkem Emerald Osuigwe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osuigwe, Nkem Emerald, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Nigeria.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The received account on African evangelical Christianity regarding social witness in a section of Western scholarship is that it is anti-development and a-political. Such an account heavily draws from an instrumentalist and functionalist assessment of such Christianity without recourse to its emic perspective. Using the case-study method, this book presents an ethnographic examination of this functionalist reading by investigating, describing and analysing evangelical Christian theological an...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES; FOREWORD; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6709-8

OCLC:

891356239