Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel / Barbara M. Cooper.

Author/creator Cooper, Barbara MacGowan
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxii, 462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesAfrican systems of thought
African systems of thought. ^A233057
Contents Introduction: fundamental differences -- Anatomy of a riot -- Love and violence -- From "Satan's masterpiece" to "the social problem of Islam" -- A Hausa spiritual vernacular -- African agency and the growth of the church in the Maradi Region, 1927-1960 -- Disciplining the Christian : defining elderhood, Christian marriage, and "God's work," 1933-1955 -- "An extremely dangerous suspect" : from Vichy-era travails to postwar triumph -- Impasses in vernacular education, 1945-1995 -- Handmaid to the gospel : SIM's medical work in Niger, 1944-1975 -- The tree of life : regenerating and gendering the garden after the fall, 1975-2000 -- Ca̧ bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu -- Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [435]-453) and index.
LCCN 2005032590
ISBN0253347394 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780253347398

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