The Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present

The Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present

Editors: Andrew Eugene Barnes and Toyin Falola

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This comprehensive Handbook provides chapter length surveys of the history of Christian missions and Christian churches on the African continent since the time of Christ. Africa is rapidly becoming the most Christianized region of the world. While common narratives about Christianity tend to present Christianity as a set of ideas and beliefs imposed on Africa from the outside, such narratives hold little meaning for African Christians or for those seeking to understand Christianity in Africa as an indigenous faith. The aim of the Handbook is to propose a set of scholarly starting points for a new set of narratives. The chapters collected here communicate an idea of Christianity as it has been embraced among African peoples at particular historical moments. It therefore grants voice to the various strands of African Christianity on their own terms, and offers scholarly study of what these voices teach us about how the world’s most adhered to religion is practiced and understood on the continent of Africa.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Front Matter
The Writings and Influence of Edward W. Blyden
The Writings and Legacy of John Mbiti
The Writings and Legacy of Adrian Hastings
Elizabeth Isichei’s Contributions to the Study of Christianity
The Writings and Legacy of Andrew Walls
The Writings and Legacy of Lamin Sanneh
The Writings and Legacy of John Peel
The Legacy of Terrence Ranger for Historians of African Christianity
The Writings and Legacy of J. F. Ade Ajayi
The Writings and Legacy of Ogbu Kalu

TRANS-ATLANTIC CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA

Front Matter
Missionaries and African Christians
Catholic Missions and African Responses I: 1450–1800
African Initiatives and Agency Within British Protestant Missions in Africa, c.1792–c.1914
Abolitionism and the Evangelization of Africa
Continental Protestant Missions and the Evangelization of Africa (1800–1880)
European Settlers and Christianity in Africa
Catholic Missions and African Responses II: 1800–1885
European Christianity and European Imperialism in Africa
New World Ethiopianism and the Evangelization of Africa
Catholic Missions and Colonial States
Protestant Missions and Colonial States
Women Missionaries and the Evangelization of Women in Africa
Christian Africans, Muslim Africans, and the European Colonial Project

THE ROOTING OF CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA I: CHRISTIAN LIFE FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE INDEPENDENCE ERA

Front Matter
Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Roman Africa
Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Ethiopia and Nubia
Mission Station Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: A Spatial Lens
Christianity, Witchcraft, Magic, and Healing in Africa
African Women Christians
Ethiopianism in Africa
Garveyism and Christianity in Colonial Africa
The East African Revival
The Transfer of Protestant Mission Churches to African Christians

THE ROOTING OF CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA II: CHRISTIAN LIFE IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA

Front Matter
Christian Devotional Practice in Contemporary Africa
Catholic Church Growth in Independent Africa
Christian Femininity in Independent Africa
Change and Continuity in AIC Church Life and Their Scholarship: A Question of Maturation?
Significant Trends in Contemporary African Pentecostalism
African Pentecostalism from an African Perspective
Missions and Contemporary African Rulers
African Christianity Rising: Lessons from a Documentary Film Project
African Christians Outside of Africa
Back Matter

EDITORS AND AFFILIATIONS

School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

Andrew Eugene Barnes

Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

Toyin Falola

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Andrew E. Barnes is Professor of History at Arizona State University, USA. He is the author of The Social Dimension of Piety: Associative Life and Religious Change in the Penitent Confraternities of Marseille 1499-1792 (1994), Making Headway: The Introduction of Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria (2009), and Global Christianity and the Black Atlantic: Tuskegee, Colonialism and the Shaping of African Industrial Education (2017). Presently he is working on a monograph of the evolution of Ethiopianism among Christians of African descent across the Atlantic, 1780-1930.

Toyin Falola is University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

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