Barbara M Cooper

Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cooper's involvement in a violent religious riot provides a useful backdrop for introducing other themes and concerns such as Bible translation, medical outreach, public preaching, tensions between English-speaking and French-speaking missionaries, and the Christian mission's changing views of Islam.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780253222336
• ISBN-10: 0253222338
• Artikelnr.: 30205413

Autorenporträt

Barbara M. Cooper

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Acronyms
Introduction: Fundamental Differences
1. Anatomy of a Riot
2. Love and Violence
3. From "Satan's Masterpiece" to "The Social Problem of Islam"
4. A Hausa Spiritual Vernacular
5. African Agency and the Growth of the Church in the Maradi Region,
1927-1960
6. Disciplining the Christian: Defining Elderhood, Christian Marriage, and
"God's Work," 1933-1955
7. "An Extremely Dangerous Suspect": From Vichy-Era Travails to Postwar
Triumph
8. Impasses in Vernacular Education, 1945-1995
9. Handmaid to the Gospel: SIM's Medical Work in Niger, 1944-1975
10. The Tree of Life: Regenerating and Gendering the Garden after the Fall,
1975-2000
11. Ça bouge: Hausa Christian Practice in a Muslim Milieu
Epilogue: SIM's Successors and the Pentecostal Explosion
Glossary
Notes
Works Consulted
Index