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16 of the Best Books and Articles on: Christianity in Africa

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1.

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

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Peter Nlemadim DomNwachukwu is Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church, Owerri, Imo State of Nigeria.
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The Church in Africa: 1450-1950 » Read Now
by Adrian Hastings. 706 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

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

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

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

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

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...
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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.
This publication has alsobeen published in paperback, please click here for details.
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Denominationalism in Africa, in The Ecumenical Review » Read Now
by Sam Kobia. 10 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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The Collapse of a Collegial Church: North African Christianity on the Eve of Islam, in Theological Studies » Read Now
by Maureen A. Tilley. 20 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...solely military factors. CHRISTIANITY IN NORTH AFRICA was as distinctive for...HIERARCHY From its inception, Christianity in North Africa seems to have taken on...From the...
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Construing Newer "Window" of Ecumenism for Africa: A Catholic Perspective, in The Ecumenical Review » Read Now
by Gosbert T. M. Byamungu. 11 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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Religious and Political Ethics in Africa: A Moral Inquiry (Chap. 7 "Christianity, Islam, and Politics") » Read Now
by Harvey J. Sindima. 209 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

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...
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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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The Missionary Factor in East Africa » Read Now
by Roland Oliver. 302 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Expansion of Christianity , Schmidlin...Missionen in den deutschen...Handhook of East Africa , 1932...compatriots in East Africa, and which...of African Christianity. If I...
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Finding a Social Voice: The Church and Marxism in Africa » Read Now
by Joseph C. McKenna. 260 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

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

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...of South Africa in October...of Modern Christianity at the...mainline Christianity during this...the church in Africa which, he...American Christianity have...
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Christianity ("Christianity in Africa" begins on p. 92) » Read Now
by Brian Wilson. 128 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa » Read Now
by James T. Campbell. 424 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

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

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

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...
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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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Women of Fire and Spirit: History, Faith, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya » Read Now
by Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton. 260 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

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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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") » Read Now
by Holger Bernt Hansen, Michael Twaddle. 280 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library