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

The book charts Christianity's 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.

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Ingrid Lawrie (Editore), Maxwell (Editore)
• Editore: Brill
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.05.2013
• EAN: 9789004245105
• ISBN: 978-90-04-24510-5
• Pagine: 434
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Peso: 703 g
• Serie: Studies of Religion in Africa
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali