Christianity and the African Imagination : Essays in Honour of Adrian Hastings /

Christianity and the African Imagination : Essays in Honour of Adrian Hastings /

During the twentieth-century, Christendom shifted its centre of gravity to the Southern Hemisphere, Africa becoming the most significant area of church growth. This volume explores Christianity's advance across the continent, and its capturing of the African imagination. From the medieval Catho...

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Other Authors: Maxwell, David (Editor), Lawrie, Ingrid (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.

Series: Studies of Religion in Africa ; 23
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy - Book Archive 2000-2006.

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Christianity and culture > Africa.
Christianity > Africa.
Christianity.

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Call Number: BR1360

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • David Maxwell
  • Acknowledgements /
  • David Maxwell
  • Contributors /
  • David Maxwell
  • Introduction Christianity and the African Imagination /
  • David Maxwell
  • Chapter One A Kongo Princess, the Kongo Ambassadors and the Papacy /
  • Richard Gray
  • Chapter Two Africa as the Theatre of Christian Engagement with Islam in the Nineteenth Century /
  • Andrew F. Walls
  • Chapter Three The Bugandan Christian Revolution: The Catholic Church in Buddu, 1879-1896 /
  • John Mary Waliggo
  • Chapter Four 'Taking on the Missionary's Task': African Spirituality and the Mission Churches of Manicaland in the 1930s /
  • Terence Ranger
  • Chapter Five Christianity and the Logic of Nationalist Assertion in Wole Soyinka's Ìsarà /
  • J.D.Y. Peel
  • Chapter Six Kikuyu Christianities: A History of Intimate Diversity /
  • John Lonsdale
  • Chapter Seven Archbishop Janani Luwum: The Dilemmas of Loyalty, Opposition and Witness in Amin's Uganda /
  • Kevin Ward
  • Chapter Eight Pentecostalism and Neo-Traditionalism: The Religious Polarization of a Rural District in Southern Malawi /
  • Matthew Schoffeleers
  • Chapter Nine A Traditional Religion Reformed: Vincent Kwabena Damuah and the Afrikania Movement, 1982-2000 /
  • Samuel Gyanfosu
  • Chapter Ten Christianity without Frontiers: Shona Missionaries and Transnational Pentecostalism in Africa /
  • David Maxwell
  • Chapter Eleven The Shaping of a Prophet: The African Career and Writings of Adrian Hastings /
  • Ingrid Lawrie
  • Chapter Twelve Adrian Hastings's Bibliography, 1950-2002 /
  • Ingrid Lawrie
  • Four Poems from Zaire for Adrian Hastings /
  • Donald Mackay
  • Index /
  • David Maxwell
  • Studies of Religion in Africa /
  • David Maxwell.