Religious Conversion in Africa
Bruner, Jason
Religious Conversion in Africa - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020 - 1 electronic resource (126 p.)
Open Access
This collection brings together a diverse range of scholars, including historians of pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary Africa, along with anthropologists, who develop fresh arguments and reassessments of religious, cultural, and social change pertaining to Africa. The result is a fascinating array of research that offers critical, creative, and constructive analyses of religious change on the African continent, from the medieval period to the present.
Creative Commons
English
books978-3-03943-035-2 9783039430345 9783039430352
10.3390/books978-3-03943-035-2 doi
Research & information: general
Orthodox Christianity conversion ritualism religiosity Uganda modernity post-coloniality globalism anti-globalism Ethiopian Orthodox Church religious conversion women representation medieval Christianity hagiography social engagement faith-based NGO Ahmadiyya Burkina Faso France Pentecostal/charismatic missionization spiritual warfare networks Roman Catholicism reconversion linearity missionaries Mozambique Mormonism The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Anthony Obinna southeastern Nigeria Rastafari Ghana Jamaica Pan-African trodding the path livity Africa anthropology of Christianity history Africana religions historiography n/a
Religious Conversion in Africa - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020 - 1 electronic resource (126 p.)
Open Access
This collection brings together a diverse range of scholars, including historians of pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary Africa, along with anthropologists, who develop fresh arguments and reassessments of religious, cultural, and social change pertaining to Africa. The result is a fascinating array of research that offers critical, creative, and constructive analyses of religious change on the African continent, from the medieval period to the present.
Creative Commons
English
books978-3-03943-035-2 9783039430345 9783039430352
10.3390/books978-3-03943-035-2 doi
Research & information: general
Orthodox Christianity conversion ritualism religiosity Uganda modernity post-coloniality globalism anti-globalism Ethiopian Orthodox Church religious conversion women representation medieval Christianity hagiography social engagement faith-based NGO Ahmadiyya Burkina Faso France Pentecostal/charismatic missionization spiritual warfare networks Roman Catholicism reconversion linearity missionaries Mozambique Mormonism The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Anthony Obinna southeastern Nigeria Rastafari Ghana Jamaica Pan-African trodding the path livity Africa anthropology of Christianity history Africana religions historiography n/a