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Authentic African Christianity: An Inculturation Model for the Igbo
by Peter Nlemadim Domnwachukwu. 237 pgs.

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Peter Nlemadim DomNwachukwu is Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church, Owerri, Imo State of Nigeria.

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American University Studies

Authentic African Christianity: An Inculturation Model for the Igbo

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Glossary

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1: General Nature of Igbo Christianity

Chapter 2: The Nature of African Traditional Religions

Chapter 3: Igbo Religion

Chapter 4: Introduction of Christianity in Igboland

Chapter 5: Current Practice of Christianity Among the Igbo

Chapter 6: Inculturation Theory

Chapter 7: Dialogue: an Inculturation Model for Christianity in Igboland

Chapter 8: Some Current Methods of Evangelism in Igboland

Chapter 9: The Bible Versus Igbo Religion

Conclusion

Appendix I: Survey of the Practice of Christianity in Igboland

Appendix II: The Igbo-Speaking Peoples

Bibliography

Index
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The Church in Africa: 1450-1950
by Adrian Hastings. 706 pgs.

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Covering five centuries--from the rise of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the 15th century and the early Portuguese missionaries right through to the Church and its key role in Africa today--this major new volume is the first complete history of the Christian Church in Africa. Written by a leading authority on Church history who has spent many years in Africa, it looks at all aspects of Christianity in Africa, including its relationship to traditional values and customs, politics, and the comparable rise of Islam in Africa during the period. It is the latest volume in the highly successful Oxford History of the Christian Church series.

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Preface

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A Note on Names

Abbreviations

Part I: 1450-1780: A Medieval Environment

1: The Ethiopian Church in the Age of Zara Ya'Iqob

2: Africa in 1500 and Its Christian Past

3: The Kongo, Warri, Mutapa, and the Portuguese

4: Riches to Rags: Ethiopia 1500-1800

Part II: 1780-1890: From Anti-Slavery to Total Subjugation

5: Equiano to Ntsikana: From the 1780s to the 1820s

6: The Lion Revived: Ethiopia in the Nineteenth Century

7: The Victorian Missionary

8: Kings, Marriage, Ancestors, and God

9: Christian Life in the Age of Bishop Crowther

Part III: 1890-1960: The Christianizing of Half A Continent

10: A Variety of Scrambles: 1890-1920

11: From Agbebi to Diangienda: Independency and Prophetism

12: Church, School, and State in the Age of Bishop Kiwanuka

Appendix 1: Kings of Ethiopia and Kongo Referred to in the Text

Appendix 2: Maps

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Index
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A History of the Church in Africa
by Christopher Steed, Bengt Sundkler. 1232 pgs.

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The late Bengt Sundkler, missionary, bishop, and academic, pioneered the study of independent churches in Africa. In this magisterial work, he reviews the entire history of the development of Christianity in all regions of the continent. In contrast to the conventional focus on the missionary enterprise, Professor Sundkler places the African converts at the centre of the study. African Christians, typically drawn from the margins of society, reinterpreted the Christian message, proselytised, governed local congregations, and organised independent churches. Emphasising African initiatives in the process of Christianisation, he argues that its development was shaped by African kings and courts, the history of labour migration, and local experiences of colonisation. This long-awaited book will become the standard reference on African Christian churches.

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Maps

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1: The Beginnings

2: Maritime Connections

3: Overview to the Nineteenth Century

4: North and North-Eastern Africa

5: Western Africa

6: West-Central Africa

7: Southern Africa

8: South-Central Africa and the Indian Ocean

9: East Africa

10: East-Central Africa

11: Continental Panoramas

12: Local Perspectives

13: North and North-Eastern Africa

14: West Africa

15: Central Africa

16: Southern Africa

17: Eastern Africa

18: Introduction to Independent Africa

19: North and North-Eastern Africa

20: West Africa

21: Central Africa

22: Southern Africa

23: East Africa

24: Ecumenical Perspectives

25: Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index
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The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories, and Trends
by Musa W. Dube, Gerald O. West. 828 pgs.

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Although the arrival of the Bible in Africa has often been a tale of terror, the Bible has become an African book. This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own.
The essays in this book offer a glimpse of the rich resources that constitute Africa's engagement with the Bible. Among the topics are: the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa, the relationship between African biblical scholarship and scholarship in the West, African resources for reading the Bible, the history and role of vernacular translation in particular African contexts, the ambiguity of the Bible in Africa, the power of the Bible as text and symbol, and the intersections between class, race, gender, and culture in African biblical interpretation.
The book also contains an extensive bibliography of African biblical scholarship. In fact, it is one of the most comprehensive collections of African biblical scholarship available in print.
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Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Introduction

Part One: Historical and Hermeneutical Perspectives

Developments in Biblical Interpretation in Africa: Historical and Hermeneutical Directions

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Mapping African Biblical Interpretation: a Tentative Sketch

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Old Testament Scholarship in Sub-Saharan Africa North of the Limpopo River

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New Testament Exegesis in (Modern) Africa

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How Al-Mokattam Mountain Was Moved: the Coptic Imagination and the Christian Bible

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The Bible in the Black Diaspora: Links with African Christianity

Batswakwa: Which Traveller Are You (John 1:1–18)?

The Limits of Difference: Ngugi Wa Thiong'O's Redeployment of Biblical Signifiers in a Grain of Wheat and I Will Marry When I Want

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(South) Africa, Bible, Criticism: Rhetorics of a Visit

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Part Two: Particular Encounters with Particular Texts

A Late Seventeenth Century Translation of the Psalms at the Cape

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Earliest Southern African Biblical Interpretation: the Case of the Bakwena, Bakololo and Bangwato

The Role of the Bible in the Rise of African Instituted Churches: the Case of the Akurinu Churches in Kenya

Cain and Abel in Africa: an Ethiopian Case Study in Competing Hermeneutics

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The Mother of the Ewe and Firstborn Daughter as the “good Shepherd” in the Cultural Context of the Ewe Peoples: a Liberating Approach

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Pouring Libation to Spirit Powers Among the Ewe-Dome of Ghana: an Indigenous Religious and Biblical Perspective

Contextual Balancing of Scripture with Scripture: Scripture Union in Nigeria and Ghana

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The Vernacularization of Scripture and African Beliefs: the Story of the Gerasene Demoniac Among the Ewe of West Africa

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The Role of the Bible in the Igbo Christianity of Nigeria

The Use of Psalms in African Indigenous Churches in Nigeria

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Cursed Be Everyone Who Hangs on a Tree: Pastoral Implications of Deuteronomy 21:22–23 and Galatians 3:13 in an African Context

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Nyimbo Za Vijana: Biblical Interpretation in Contemporary Hymns from Tanzania

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The Bible in Malawi: a Brief Survey of Its Impact on Society

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A Setswana Perspective on Genesis 1:1–10

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The Impact of the Bible on Traditional Rain-Making Institutions in Western Zimbabwe

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The Bishop and the Bricoleur: Bishop John William Colenso's Commentary on Romans and Magema Kamagwaza Fuze's the Black People and Whence They Came

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Part Three: Comparison and Translation as Transaction

Comparative Readings of the Bible in Africa: Some Concerns

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Corporate Personality in Botswana and Ancient Israel: a Religio-Cultural Comparison

The Biblical God of the Fathers and the African Ancestors

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African Perspectives on Poverty in the Hebrew Law Codes

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Ngaka and Jesus as Liberators: a Comparative Reading

The Swahili Bible in East Africa from 1844 to 1996: a Brief Survey with Special Reference to Tanzania

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100 Years of the Luganda Bible (1896–1996): a General Survey

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“do You Understand What You Are Reading [Hearing]?” (Acts 8:30): the Translation and Contextualization of Isaiah 52:13–53:12 in Chitonga

The Kiswahili Mwana Wa Mtu and the Greek Ho Huios Tou AnthrÔpou

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Part Four: Redrawing the Boundaries of the Bible in Africa

Africa in the Old Testament

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Popular Readings of the Bible in Africa and Implications for Academic Readings: Report on the Field Research Carried Out on Oral Interpretation of the Bible in Port Harcourt Metropolis, Nigeria Under the Auspices of the Bible in Africa Project, 1991–94

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Contextual Bible Study in South Africa: a Resource for Reclaiming and Regaining Land, Dignity and Identity

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To Pray the Lord's Prayer in the Global Economic Era (Matt. 6:9–13)

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Part Five: Bibliography

A Bibliography of the Bible in Africa

Index of Biblical References

Index of Names

Index of Subjects
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The Changing Face of Christianity: Africa, the West, and the World
by Lamin Sanneh, Joel A. Carpenter. 233 pgs.

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Contributors

Introduction: The Changing Face of Christianity

1: Religion Bridge

2: Culture, Christianity, and Witchcraft in a West African Context

3: Shall They till with Their Own Hoes?

4: A View of Ghana's New Christianity

5: The Role of Churches in the Peace Process in Africa

6: Christian Witness in the Public Sphere

7: Interpreting Karen Christianity

8: Missionary Thinking about Religious Plurality at Tambaram 1938

9: Contextual Theology

Conclusion: The Current Transformation of Christianity

Index
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Religious and Political Ethics in Africa: A Moral Inquiry (Chap. 7 "Christianity, Islam, and Politics")
by Harvey J. Sindima. 209 pgs.

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This volume investigates the causes of the political, economic, and moral problems of today's Africa and provides a framework for the reconstruction of modern African states. The author focuses on the interaction between religion and politics throughout history and on the role of the Church in postcolonial Africa. In order to develop a basis for African political and religious ethics, he uses an interdisciplinary approach that draws from political theory, history, and social and religious ethics. Among the issues discussed are ethnicity, mismanagement, corruption, and the African concept of power.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Church and Politics in Africa

NOTES

2: Politics and the Idea of a Nation

NOTES

3: State and Civil Society

NOTES

4: The Early Church and the State

NOTES

5: The Secularization of the State

NOTES

6: Power and Authority in the Bible

NOTES

7: Christianity, Islam, and Politics

CONCLUSION

NOTES

8: Towards African Political Ethics

NOTES

9: The Kingdom of God

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Appendix A The Confession of Alexandria

NOTE

Appendix B Country Profiles

Works Cited

Index

About the Author
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The Missionary Factor in East Africa
by Roland Oliver. 302 pgs.

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Introduction

Acknowledgement

List of Maps

Note on Names of Tribes and Places

Chapter One: The Missionary Occupation of East Africa

Chapter Two: Missionary Work During the Pioneer Period, 1856-85

Chapter Three: The Missions and the European Occupation, 1885-95

Chapter Four: The Zenith of the Missions, 1884-1914

Chapter Five: Mission, Church and State, 1914-49

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Index
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Finding a Social Voice: The Church and Marxism in Africa
by Joseph C. McKenna. 260 pgs.

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Finding a Social Voice investigates how Postcolonial African regimes under varying degree of Marxist influence have interacted with the Catholic Church, and studies how the Church has grown through this interaction.

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Acknowledgments

1: Rationale, Approach

Notes

2: Marxism: Theory and Practice

Notes

3: Marxism's Influence in Africa: An Overview

Notes

4: The Church in Africa and Its Encounter with Marxism: An Overview

Notes

5: Marxism and the Church in Mozambique

Notes

6: Marxism and the Church in Madagascar

Notes

7: Marxism and the Church in Zimbabwe

Notes

8: Marxism and the Church in Zambia

Notes

9: Comparisons, Contrasts, Reflections

Sources Cited

Index
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Theology and Ministry in Context and Crisis: A South African Perspective (Chap. Three "Oppressive Suffering, Theological Reflection, and Christian Solidarity")
by John W. de Gruchy. 192 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

Chapter One Ministry, Theology and the Community of Faith

Chapter Two Theology, Prophecy, and Pastoral Practice

Chapter Three Oppressive Suffering, Theological Reflection, and Christian Solidarity

Chapter Four the Theological Formation of the People of God

Index of Names

Notes
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Christianity ("Christianity in Africa" begins on p. 92)
by Brian Wilson. 128 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

Chronology of Christianity

1: Introduction

2: From Jesus to Messiah to Christ: The Development of Christianity in Late Antiquity

3: The Concept of Christendom: Christianity from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

4: Reformations in the West

5: Christianity and the Challenges of Modernity

6: The Globalization of Christianity

7: Christian Beliefs and Practices in a Postmodern Age

Notes

Glossary

Pronunciation Guide

Holy Days and Festivals

Suggested Further Reading

Index
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Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa
by James T. Campbell. 424 pgs.

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This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the book studies the complex human and intellectual traffic that has bound African American and South African experience. It explores the development and growth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church both in South Africa and America, and the interaction between the two churches. This is a highly innovative work of comparative and religious history. Its linking of the United States and African black religious experiences is unique and makes it appealing to readers interested in religious history and black experience in both the United States and South Africa.

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Preface

Contents

Book One

1: Vindicating the Race

2: Harnessing the Spirit

3: Through the Looking Glass

Book Two

4: Stretch Forth Thy Hands

5: African Methodism as a Social Movement, I

6: African Methodism as A Social Movement, II

Book Three

7: The Making of a Religious Institution

8: The Seed You Sow in Africa

9: Middle Passages

Epilogue

Abbreviations Used in the Notes

Notes

Index
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Christian Missionizing and Social Transformation: A History of Conflict and Change in Eastern Zaire
by Jack E. Nelson. 210 pgs.

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This volume represents a case study of African responses to American missionary efforts in colonial and post-colonial Zaire. Nelson describes how conflict emerged when missionary attempts to control the rate and nature of change and to "protect" the church community from "corrupting" Western influences confronted African aspirations to overcome foreign domination through education and economic means. Nelson relates an account of social forces transforming the missionaries' designs in the midst of colonial efforts, the encroachment of a cash economy, the rise of nationalism and political struggles, and the formation of social classes.

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACRONYMS

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Social Transformations in North Kivu

NOTES

Chapter 3 the Unevangelized Africa Mission

Chapter 4 the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Kivu

Chapter 5 Schism in the Baptist Churches in Kivu

Chapter 6 Two Baptist Church Communities in Kivu

Chapter 7 Conclusion: Christian Missionizing and Social Transformation

APPENDIX A: THE BURUNGU RESOLUTIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Women of Fire and Spirit: History, Faith, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya
by Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton. 260 pgs.

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This is the first extensive study of the African Christian Roho religion, or Holy Spirit movement, in Western Kenya. Hoehler-Fatton uses extensive oral histories and life narratives to provide a counterweight to existing historical literature, and also brings to the fore the role of women in the evolution and expansion of the Church.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

NOTE ON ORTHOGRAPHY

NOTE ON THE ROHO (HOLY SPIRIT) LITURGICAL LANGUAGE

KEY FIGURES IN THE ROHO HISTORICAL NARRATIVE (In alphabetical order by last name)

1: The Early Phase of the Roho Movement

2: Rejection and Crisis

3: Roho Expansion and Church Formation

4: Sacrifice and Redemption: The Roho Worldview

5: Quiet Wives and Questing Warriors: The Public and Hidden Transcripts of Roho Women

CLOSING REMARKS

Appendix

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX
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Religion and Politics in East Africa: The Period since Independence (Part Two "Christianity, Sectarianism, & Politics in Uganda" and Part Three "Christians & Muslims in Kenyan Politics")
by Holger Bernt Hansen, Michael Twaddle. 280 pgs.

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Contributors

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One the Character of Politico-Religious Conflict in Eastern Africa

Part One the Challenge of Islam

Muslims & Politics: The Attempts to Create Muslim National Organizations in Tanzania, Uganda & Kenya

Notes

Three the Past in the Present?: The Issue of the Sharia in Sudan

Four Idi Amin 'the Nubi' & Islam in Ugandan Politics 1971-1979

Part Two Christianity, Sectarianism & Politics in Uganda

Five the Holy Spirit Movement & the Forces of Nature in the North of Uganda 1985-1987

Notes

References

Six the Church of Uganda Amidst Conflict: The Interplay Between Church & Politics in Uganda Since 1962

Conclusion:

Notes

Seven: The Catholic Church & the Root-Cause of Political Instability in Uganda

Eight Catholics & Political Identity in Toro

Conclusions

Notes

References

Part Three Christians & Muslims in Kenyan Politics

Nine 'Render Unto Caesar the Things That Are Caesar's' the Politics of Church-State Conflict in Kenya 1978-1990

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Ten Ideological Politics Versus Biblical Hermeneutics: Kenya's Protestant Churches & the Nyayo State

Conclusion: Pragmatic Theology and Ideological Politics

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Eleven Coping with the Christians: The Muslim Predicament in Kenya

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Part Four Cross-Cultural Complications

Twelve Christian -- Muslim Inputs into Public Policy Formation in Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda

Notes

Thirteen the Churches & Human Rights in Kenya & Uganda Since Independence

Index

Fourteen Church & State in Eastern Africa: Some Unresolved Questions

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