The Palgrave handbook of Christianity in Africa from apostolic times to the present / Andrew Eugene Barnes, Toyin Falola, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnes, Andrew Eugene, editor.

Falola, Toyin, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

PALGRAVE HANDBOOKS.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Africa.

Christianity.

Africa--Church history.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 699 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan : Springer Nature; Palgrave Macmillan, [2024]

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I Mentors

Chapter 2. The Writings and Influence of Edward W. Blyden

Chapter 3. The Writings and Legacy of John Mbiti

Chapter 4. The Writings and Legacy of Adrian Hastings

Chapter 5. Elizabeth Isichei's Contributions to the Study of Christianity

Chapter 6. The Writings and Legacy of Andrew Walls

Chapter 7. The Writings and Legacy of Lamin Sanneh

Chapter 8. The Writings and Legacy of John Peel

Chapter 9. The Legacy of Terrence Ranger for Historians of African Christianity

Chapter 10. The Writings and Legacy of J. F. Ade Ajayi

Chapter 11. The Writings and Legacy of Ogbu Kalu

Part II Trans-Atlantic Christianity in Africa

Chapter 12. Missionaries and African Christians

Chapter 13. Catholic Missions and African Responses I: 1450-1800

Chapter 14. African Initiatives and Agency Within British Protestant Missions in Africa, c.1792-c.1914

Chapter 15. Abolitionism and the Evangelization of Africa

Chapter 16. Continental ProtestantMissions and the Evangelization of Africa (1800-1880)

Chapter 17. European Settlers and Christianity in Africa

Chapter 18. Catholic Missions and African Responses II: 1800-1885

Chapter 19. European Christianity and European Imperialism in Africa

Chapter 20. "New World Ethiopianism and the Evangelization of Africa"

Chapter 21. Catholic Missions and Colonial States

Chapter 22. Protestant Missions and Colonial States

Chapter 23. Women Missionaries and the Evangelization of Women in Africa

Chapter 24. Christian Africans, Muslim Africans, and the European Colonial Project

Part III The Rooting of Christianity in Africa I: Christian Life from Ancient Times to the Independence Era

Chapter 25. Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Roman Africa

Chapter 26. Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Ethiopia and Nubia

Chapter 27. Mission Station Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: A Spatial Lens

Chapter 28. Christianity, Witchcraft, Magic, and Healing in Africa

Chapter 29. African Women Christians

Chapter 30. Ethiopianism in Africa

Chapter 31. Garveyism and Christianity in Colonial Africa

Chapter 32. The East African Revival

Chapter 33. The Transfer of Protestant Mission Churches to African Christians

Part IV The Rooting of Christianity in Africa II: Christian Life in Contemporary Africa

Chapter 34. Christian Devotional Practice in Contemporary Africa

Chapter 35. Catholic Church Growth in Independent Africa

Chapter 36. Christian Femininity in Independent Africa

Chapter 37. Change and Continuity in AIC Church Life and Their Scholarship: A Question of Maturation?

Chapter 38. Significant Trends in Contemporary African Pentecostalism

Chapter 39. African Pentecostalism from an African Perspective

Chapter 40. Missions and Contemporary African Rulers

Chapter 41. African Christianity Rising: Lessons from a Documentary Film Project

Chapter 42. African Christians Outside of Africa./.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 12, 2024).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783031482700

3031482700

Publisher Number:

99996218792

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.