Christianity and public culture in Africa / edited by Harri Englund.

Other author Englund, Harri.
Format Book
Publication InfoAthens : Ohio University Press, ©2011.
Descriptionix, 238 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCambridge Centre of African Studies series
Cambridge Centre of African Studies series. ^A1092505
Contents Introduction : rethinking African Christianities : beyond the religion-politics conundrum / Harri Englund -- Christian mission stations in South-Central Africa : eddies in the flow of global culture / James A. Pritchett -- Debating the secular in Zambia : the response of the Catholic Church to scientific socialism and Christian nation, 1976-2006 / Marja Hinfelaar -- Rejection or reappropriation?: Christian allegory and the critique of Postcolonial public culture in the early novels of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o / Nicholas Kamau-Goro -- The implications of reproductive politics for religious competition in Niger / Barbara M. Cooper -- Public debates about Luo widow inheritance : Christianity, tradition, and AIDS in western Kenya / Ruth Prince -- "Arise, oh ye daughters of faith" : women, Pentecostalism, and public culture in Kenya / Damaris Parsitau -- Going and making public : Pentecostalism as public religion in Ghana / Birgit Meyer -- From spiritual warfare to spiritual kinship : Islamophobia and evangelical radio in Malawi / Harri Englund -- Believing practically and trusting socially in Africa : the contrary case of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Durban, South Africa / Ilana Van Wyk -- The gospel of public image in Ghana / Michael Perry Kweku Okyerefo.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-232) and index.
LCCN 2010047488
ISBN9780821419458 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0821419455 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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