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African adventurers /

: 19 pages, [32] leaves of plates : illustrations, 21 cm. : Bibliography : pages 118-119.

Friends of Africa /

: 250 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm. : Bibliography : pages 241-244.

Published 1949
Contribution à l'étude de l'Islam noir /

: 120 pages : maps ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references.

Die Religionen der Afrikaner in ihrem Zusammenhang mit dem Wirtschaftsleben /

: Series title in part at head of t.-p. : 96 pages, plates ; 20 cm. : Bibliography : pages [91]-94.

Published 1957
Intishār al-Islām wa-al-ʻUrūbah fī-mā yalī al-sạhṛāʼ al-kubrā : sharqī al-Qārrah al-Ifrīqīyah wa-gharbīhā /

: At head of title: Jāmiʻat al-duwal al-ʻArabīyah. : 179 pages : maps ; 23 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-170) and index.

The religious Nile : water, ritual and society since ancient Egypt /

: xiv, 466 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-448) and index. : 9781784539788

Published 1968
The influence of Islam upon Africa /

: x, 159 pages : 5 maps ; 23 cm. : Bibliography : pages 142-144.

Published 1905
Daybreak in the Dark continent /

: "References for papers or talks" at end of chapters. : xiv, [2], 315 pages : plates, maps (part folded) ; 19 cm. : Bibliography : pages 295-299.

al-Islām wa-al-thaqāfah al-ʻArabīyah fī Afrīqiyā /

: 1 volume ; 24 cm : Bibliography : volume 1, pages 505-516.

Published 1963
al-Islām wa-al-thaqāfah al-ʻArabīyah fī Ifrīqiyah /

: volumes : maps (1 folded) ; 24 cm : Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. [505]-516)

Published 2014
Pentecostalism in Africa : presence and impact of pneumatic Christianity in postcolonial societies /

: Within recent decades Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity has moved from an initially peripheral position to become a force to be reckoned with within Africa's religious landscape. Bringing together prominent Africanist scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this book offers a comprehensive and multifaceted treatment of the ways in which Pentecostal-Charismatic movements have shaped the orientations of African Christianity and extended their influence into other spheres of post-colonial societies such as politics, developmental work and popular entertainment. Among other things, the chapters of the book show how Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity responds to social and cultural concerns of Africans, and how its growth and increasingly assertive presence in public life have facilitated new kinds of social positioning and claims to political power.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004281875 : 1876-2247 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2020
The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa (4th -6th centuries) : Augustine of Hippo, his Contemporaries and Early Reception /

: In The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa (4th-6th centuries) Matthieu Pignot explores how individuals became Christian in ancient North Africa. Before baptism, converts first became catechumens and spent a significant time of gradual integration into the community through rituals and teaching. This book provides the first historical study of this process in African sources, from Augustine of Hippo, to canon of councils, anonymous sermons and 6th-century letters. Pignot shows that practices varied more than is generally assumed and that catechumens, because of their liminal position, were a disputed and essential group in the development of Christian communities until the 6th century at least. This book demonstrates that the catechumenate is key to understanding the processes of Christianisation and conversion in the West.
: Revised and expanded version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2016. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004431904
9789004431898

Published 2016
The stolen Bible : from tool of imperialism to African icon /

: The Stolen Bible tells the story of how Southern Africans have interacted with the Bible from its arrival in Dutch imperial ships in the mid-1600s through to contemporary post-apartheid South Africa. The Stolen Bible emphasises African agency and distinguishes between African receptions of the Bible and African receptions of missionary-colonial Christianity. Through a series of detailed historical, geographical, and hermeneutical case-studies the book analyses Southern African receptions of the Bible, including the earliest African encounters with the Bible, the translation of the Bible into an African language, the appropriation of the Bible by African Independent Churches, the use of the Bible in the Black liberation struggle, and the ways in which the Bible is embodied in the lives of ordinary Africans.
: 1 online resource (x, 626 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 563-594) and index. : 9789004322783 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2010
Religion crossing boundaries : transnational religious and social dynamics in Africa and the new African diaspora /

: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9789004189140 : 1061-5210 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2008
African and European readers of the Bible in dialogue : in quest of a shared meaning /

: Far too long, the relationship between European and African biblical scholarship has been a non-relationship. Divergent insights into how biblical texts should be interpreted and made fruitful for the current context, cultural differences, colonial past and post-colonial future, radically different social situations - this all made companionship and real interaction difficult. This rich and multilayered volume (result of a Stellenbosch conference 2006) attempts to disclose new modes of dialogue between readers of the Bible from those two worlds. More than twenty theologians from Africa and Europe reflect together on how readers from radically different contexts - professional and ordinary alike -, may become allies in an ethically accountable way of relating the biblical text to their current (global) situations and how a process of mutual learning may be established. This book provides important insights in intercultural hermeneutics, the relationship between classical historico-literary approaches and new forms of interpretation. It also gives examples of new forms of how to read the Bible in the secularised European context and the HIV/Aids stricken Africa. Particularly enriching is that every contribution is followed by a personal letter of response of another contributor to the book, giving impulses for further dialogue and debate. The book is useful for all biblical scholars and students, in particular for those interested in how to do contextual exegesis in a manner that also takes into account the context of the other.
: Result of a conference held in Stellenbosch, South Africa in January 2006. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789047442400 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2019
Costly Communion : Ecumenical Initiative and Sacramental Strife in the Anglican Communion /

: Costly Communion: Ecumenical Initiative and Sacramental Strife in the Anglican Communion seeks to engage with Anglicanism's theological responses to the onset of the twilight of empire and to explore the diversity of Anglican sacramental and ecumenical controversies during the twentieth century. From sacramental initiation and the doctrine of Eucharistic sacrifice to church order and the historic episcopate, Costly Communion offers insights into Anglo-Catholic and Evangelical attempts to resolve the divisions provoked by the impact of the Oxford Movement from the 1830s. In its engagement with sub-Saharan African contextualization of the Anglican, moreover, Costly Communion analyses the unanticipated threat that Anglican diversity now poses for the unity of the Anglican Communion. Contributors are: Jeff Boldt, Jeremy Bonner, Hugh Bowron, Mark Chapman, Colin Buchanan, Ken Farrimond, Joseph Galgalo, Benjamin Guyer, Charlotte Methuen, Thomas Mhuriro, Esther Mombo, Zablon Nthamburi, Kevin Ward.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004388680 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2020
Faith in African lived Christianity : bridging anthropological and theological perspectives /

: Faith in African Lived Christianity - Bridging Anthropological and Theological Perspectives offers a comprehensive, empirically rich and interdisciplinary approach to the study of faith in African Christianity. The book brings together anthropology and theology in the study of how faith and religious experiences shape the understanding of social life in Africa. The volume is a collection of chapters by prominent Africanist theologians, anthropologists and social scientists, who take people's faith as their starting point and analyze it in a contextually sensitive way. It covers discussions of positionality in the study of African Christianity, interdisciplinary methods and approaches and a number of case studies on political, social and ecological aspects of African Christian spirituality.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004412255

Published 2013
African theology as liberating wisdom : celebrating life and harmony in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana /

: In African Theology as Liberating Wisdom; Celebrating Life and Harmony in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana , Mari-Anna Pöntinen analyses contextual interpretations of the Christian faith in this particular church. These interpretations are based on the special wisdom tradition which embraces monistic ontology, communal ethics in botho , and the indigenous belief in God as the Source of Life, and the Root of everything that exists. The constructing theological principle in the ELCB is the downward-orientated and descending God in Christ which interprets the 'Lutheran spirit' in a liberating and empowering sense. It deals with the cultural mythos which brings Christ down into people's existence, unlike Western connotations which are considered to hinder seeing Christ and to prevent existential self-awareness.
: 1 online resource (xiv, 419 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004245976 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1999
In search of foundations for African Catholicism : Charles Nyamiti's theological methodology /

: This study deals with the interaction between neo-Thomism and African traditional thinking in Charles Nyamiti's theological methodology. The approach of the study is groundbreaking as it is the first monograph published on the theological method of any African theologian. The question about the position and relevance of Western philosophical-theological systems in a non-Western context also has a wider relevance concerning contextual theologies in general. Nyamiti's theology is a germane and a fruitful choice for the study of this issue because of his programmatic attempt to build a coherent African Roman Catholic theological system. His theology is also well-known for its strong African flavor in elaborating theological questions within the framework of orthodox Roman Catholic doctrine.
: 1 online resource (vii, 326 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-323) and index. : 9789004320031 : 0924-9389 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2008
Africas of the Americas : beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions /

: The anthropology and history of African American religious formations has long been dominated by approaches aiming to recover and authenticate the historical transatlantic continuities linking such traditions to identifiable African source cultures. While not denying such continuities, the contributors to this volume seek to transcend this research agenda by bracketing "Africa" and "African pasts" as objective givens, and asking instead what role notions of "Africanity" and "pastfulness" play in the social and ritual lives of historical and contemporary practitioners of Afro-Atlantic religious formations. The volume's goal is to open up contextually salient claims to "African origins" to empirical scrutiny, and so contribute to a broadening of the terms of debate in Afro-Atlantic studies.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789047432708 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.