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This history examines, through case studies, the ways in which African chatechists, evangelists and translators have interpreted Christianity for themselves and conveyed it to others. It analyses African prophetic and healing movements which drew on African and Christian traditions. North America: Ohio U Press; Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota; Kenya: EAEP

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All the studies in this valuable volume are well worth reading. [...] They provide a series of important insights into the challenges and opportunities confronting African Christians as they seek guidance from their faith and proclaim its global relevance for the twenty-first century. * BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES * [T]he book offers illuminating perspectives on the extraordinary drama which has unfolded as different Christian theological concepts flowed across cultural and linguistic divides to acquire new meanings in the minds of African converts (Spear p.6). Those concerned to take account of this important dimension of African life will not regret ordering a copy. -- Kenneth R. Ross * THE JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES * ...an important contribution to the field. Its emphasis on the examination of Christianity as a religious phenomenon is an important one, and one increasingly recognized as of central significance for an understanding of Africa's history and society. -- Kevin Ward, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds ... superb collection of essays providing a finely focused picture of Christianity in East Africa. -- D. Jacobson * CHOICE * This is a wonderful book. It opens up a whole field of inquiry formerly closed because Africanists, searching for authentic African voices, have seen Christianity and Christians as alien to the African continent... -- Jan Bender Shetler * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW * This is an important and welcome book, one of the growing number in which scholars are taking African Christianity as seriously as Christian Africans do themselves ...This sense of the moral and social inextricability of Christianity from modern African life is a fitting conclusion to carry away from one's reading of this fascinating and editorially well-disciplined book. -- John Lonsdale * AFRICA *

'...the book offers illuminating perspectives on the extraordinary drama which has unfolded as different Christian theological concepts flowed across cultural and linguistic divides to acquire new meanings in the minds of African converts (Spear p.6). Those concerned to take account of this important dimension of African life will not regret ordering a copy.' - Kenneth R. Ross in The Journal of Modern African Studies '...an important contribution to the field. Its emphasis on the examination of Christianity as a religious phenomenon is an important one, and one increasingly recognized as of central significance for an understanding of Africa's history and society.' - Kevin Ward, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds '... superb collection of essays providing a finely focused picture of Christianity in East Africa.' - D. Jacobson in Choice 'This is a wonderful book. It opens up a whole field of inquiry formerly closed because Africanists, searching for authentic African voices, have seen Christianity and Christians as alien to the African continent...' - Jan Bender Shetler in African Studies Review 'This is an important and welcome book, one of the growing number in which scholars are taking African Christianity as seriously as Christian Africans do themselves...This sense of the moral and social inextricability of Christianity from modern African life is a fitting conclusion to carry away from one's reading of this fascinating and editorially well-disciplined book.' - John Lonsdale in Africa '...the collection, combining as it does insights both theological and sociological, is a welcome contribution to the documentation of African Christianity. It demonstrates how utterly different the African Christian environment is to that obtaining in the North Atlantic countries. It is more than an exercise in missions history: it attempts to get to grips with the notions of Africa and Christianity, in a sensitive and insightful manner...it deals with topics, and raises questions, that are crucial to millions of African Christians...' -Mathew Clark in Pneuma: The Journal of the Society of Pentecostal Studies 'All the studies in this invaluable volume are well worth reading. They demonstrate the pervasive, intimate influence of Christianity in Africa, and they provide a series of important insights into the challenges and opportunities confronting African Christians as they seek guidance from their faith and proclaim its global relevance for the twenty-first century.' - Richard Gray in Bulletin of SOAS

All the studies in this valuable volume are well worth reading. [...] They provide a series of important insights into the challenges and opportunities confronting African Christians as they seek guidance from their faith and proclaim its global relevance for the twenty-first century. BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES [T]he book offers illuminating perspectives on the extraordinary drama which has unfolded as different Christian theological concepts flowed across cultural and linguistic divides to acquire new meanings in the minds of African converts (Spear p.6). Those concerned to take account of this important dimension of African life will not regret ordering a copy. - Kenneth R. Ross in THE JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES ...an important contribution to the field. Its emphasis on the examination of Christianity as a religious phenomenon is an important one, and one increasingly recognized as of central significance for an understanding of Africa's history and society. - Kevin Ward, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds ... superb collection of essays providing a finely focused picture of Christianity in East Africa. - D. Jacobson in CHOICE This is a wonderful book. It opens up a whole field of inquiry formerly closed because Africanists, searching for authentic African voices, have seen Christianity and Christians as alien to the African continent... - Jan Bender Shetler in AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW This is an important and welcome book, one of the growing number in which scholars are taking African Christianity as seriously as Christian Africans do themselves ...This sense of the moral and social inextricability of Christianity from modern African life is a fitting conclusion to carry away from one's reading of this fascinating and editorially well-disciplined book. - John Lonsdale in AFRICA

All the studies in this valuable volume are well worth reading. [...] They provide a series of important insights into the challenges and opportunities confronting African Christians as they seek guidance from their faith and proclaim its global relevance for the twenty-first century. BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES [T]he book offers illuminating perspectives on the extraordinary drama which has unfolded as different Christian theological concepts flowed across cultural and linguistic divides to acquire new meanings in the minds of African converts (Spear p.6). Those concerned to take account of this important dimension of African life will not regret ordering a copy. - Kenneth R. Ross in THE JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES ...an important contribution to the field. Its emphasis on the examination of Christianity as a religious phenomenon is an important one, and one increasingly recognized as of central significance for an understanding of Africa's history and society. - Kevin Ward, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds ... superb collection of essays providing a finely focused picture of Christianity in East Africa. - D. Jacobson in CHOICE This is a wonderful book. It opens up a whole field of inquiry formerly closed because Africanists, searching for authentic African voices, have seen Christianity and Christians as alien to the African continent... - Jan Bender Shetler in AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW This is an important and welcome book, one of the growing number in which scholars are taking African Christianity as seriously as Christian Africans do themselves ...This sense of the moral and social inextricability of Christianity from modern African life is a fitting conclusion to carry away from one's reading of this fascinating and editorially well-disciplined book. - John Lonsdale in AFRICA

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