Christianity and the African Imagination: Essays in Honour of Adrian Hastings - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004116680 ISBN 13 : 9789004116689

Editeur : Brill, 2001

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

David Maxwell is Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University and Fellow of Emmanuel College. He is author of Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe: A Social History of the Hwesa People c.1870s-1990s (1999) and African Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecostalism and the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement (2006). He was long-time Editor of The Journal of Religion in Africa. He is currently writing a book about missionaries and African agents in the creation of colonial knowledge in colonial Belgian Congo and has edited with Patrick Harries, The Spiritual in the Secular. Missionaries and Knowledge about Africa (2012). Ingrid Lawrie, BA in Jurisprudence, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. She was Editorial Assistant and Reviews Editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa for over twenty years until 2009.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The book charts Christianitys advance in Africa, exploring how African agents (priests, prophets, martyrs, missionaries) made the religion their own. It shows Christianity empowering Africans, through faith, to deal with concerns for health and wealth, and overcoming evil. It demonstrates how Christianity captured the African imagination.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 9004116680
• ISBN 13: 9789004116689
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 424