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1 Online-Ressource (xi, 336 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511563171
Series Statement:
African studies 26
Content:
The churches in Africa probably constitute the most important growth area for Christianity in the second half of the twentieth century. From being a number of rather tightly controlled 'mission fields' zealously guarded by the great missionary societies, Catholic and Protestant, they have emerged across the last decades in bewildering variety to selfhood, a membership of close on a hundred million adherents and an influential role both within their own societies and in the world Church. This book surveys the history of Christianity throughout sub-Saharan Africa during the third quarter of this century. It begins in 1950 at a time when the churches were still for the most part emphatically part of the colonial order and it takes the story on from there across the coming of political independence and the transformations of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Content:
Introduction -- 1950 -- 1951-1958 -- 1959-1966 -- 1967-1975 -- Between Politics and Prayer
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521293976
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521222129
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521222129
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521293976
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Hastings, Adrian, 1929 - 2001 A history of African Christianity Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1979 ISBN 0521222125
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521293979
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521222129
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Afrika
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Kirchengeschichte 1950-1975
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511563171
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Author information:
Hastings, Adrian 1929-2001
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