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

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Introduction
Part I: Mentors
	Chapter 2: The Writings and Influence of Edward W. Blyden
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: The Writings and Legacy of John Mbiti
		Remembering John Mbiti
		John Mbiti: A Biographical Sketch
		Mbiti’s Writing in Context
		The Crucible of Makerere
		African Religion and Beyond
		Mbiti’s Theological Legacy
		Africanising Christianity
		Dignifying African Religion
		Promoting African Philosophy
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: The Writings and Legacy of Adrian Hastings
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: Elizabeth Isichei’s Contributions to the Study of Christianity
		Introduction
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: The Writings and Legacy of Andrew Walls
		Life
		Publications
		Documentation6
		Impact
		Africa
		Sources
			VHS Tapes
			Books, Pamphlets, and Articles
	Chapter 7: The Writings and Legacy of Lamin Sanneh
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: The Writings and Legacy of John Peel
		Introduction
		J. D. Y. Peel: The Scholar of Christianity in Africa
		Peel’s Expansion of Understanding of Christianity in Africa
		Peel on Religious Syncretism
		Conclusion
	Chapter 9: The Legacy of Terrence Ranger for Historians of African Christianity
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: The Writings and Legacy of J. F. Ade Ajayi
		Historiographical Context
		Christian Missionaries in Nigeria 1841–1891
		Christianity and Nationalism
		Henry Venn and a “Development Agenda”
		Samuel Ajayi Crowther
		The Church and Education in West Africa
		Mission and Empire, Church and State
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 11: The Writings and Legacy of Ogbu Kalu
		Introduction
		Ogbu Kalu’s Contributions
		Africanity
		Conclusion
Part II: Trans-Atlantic Christianity in Africa
	Chapter 12: Missionaries and African Christians
		Introduction
		A Brief History of Missions from 1490
		Christian Societies
		Cultural Exchange
		Asymmetries of Authority
		Racial Inequalities
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 13: Catholic Missions and African Responses I: 1450–1800
		Introduction
		Catholicism in Africa Before the Nineteenth Century
			Ethiopia
			Eastern and Southeastern Africa
			Western Africa
			Kongo and Angola
		Bibliography
	Chapter 14: African Initiatives and Agency Within British Protestant Missions in Africa, c.1792–c.1914
		Beginnings
		Scale and Status
		The Ambiguities of West African Agency in the Church Missionary Society: Samuel Adjai Crowther
		African Agency in the CMS Uganda Mission
		African Agency in the BMS Cameroons and Congo Missions
		The Agency of Xhosa Christians in the Early Scottish Missions to Malawi
		Self-Understanding and Cultural Identity
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 15: Abolitionism and the Evangelization of Africa
		The Slave Trade, Slavery, and Resistance
		Abolitionist Origins
		Abolition to Emancipation
		The Evangelization of Africa
		Evangelization, Means, and Methods
			Southern Africa
			East and Central Africa
		The Enduring Racial Equation
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 16: Continental Protestant Missions and the Evangelization of Africa (1800–1880)
		Introduction
		Chronology
		Distinctives
		Internal Tensions
		For Further Research
		Bibliography
	Chapter 17: European Settlers and Christianity in Africa
		Introduction
		Foundations
		Mission Christianity Under the Moravian and London Missionary Societies
		African Christian Beginnings Among the Xhosa
		A Decade of Reckoning
		Natal, 1845–1910: From Toleration to War on African Christianity
		The Later Colonies of Settlement
		Decolonization, Liberation, Democracy
		Bibliography
	Chapter 18: Catholic Missions and African Responses II: 1800–1885
		Introduction
			Northern Africa
			Southern Africa
			Ethiopia
			Eastern Africa
			Western Africa
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 19: European Christianity and European Imperialism in Africa
		Bibliography
	Chapter 20: New World Ethiopianism and the Evangelization of Africa
		Introduction
		Historical Context
		Ethiopianism and Identity Formation
		Ethiopianism in Response to Imperialism
		Ethiopianism and Community Building
		Ethiopianism and Labor
		Conclusion
	Chapter 21: Catholic Missions and Colonial States
		Missionary Resurgence in the Nineteenth Century
		Cooperation and Conflict in the Colonial Era
		Toward Decolonization: Missions and Colonial States After the Second World War
		Bibliography
	Chapter 22: Protestant Missions and Colonial States
		Introduction
		Missionaries Versus Colonial Administrators
		The Northern Nigerian Example
		Ethiopianism and the Phelps-Stokes Education Commissions
		The Revolutionary Consequences of the Phelps-Stokes Commission Reports
		Some Outcomes of the European Colonial Project
		Bibliography
	Chapter 23: Women Missionaries and the Evangelization of Women in Africa
		Women Missionaries in the Early Nineteenth Century
		Women Missionaries and the Scramble for Africa (c. 1880–1914)
		Education and the Christian Home
		The Building of Cross-Cultural Relationships in the Twentieth Century
		Female Adaptive Education in the Interwar Period
		The Postwar Period and the Afterlife of Missions
		Bibliography
	Chapter 24: Christian Africans, Muslim Africans, and the European Colonial Project
		Introduction
		Fluid Relations Before the Twentieth Century
		Regulating Religious Interactions in the Twentieth Century
		Gender, Christianity, Islam, and the Colonial State
		Unintended Consequences: The Colonial in the Postcolonial
		Bibliography
Part III: The Rooting of Christianity in Africa I: Christian Life from Ancient Times to the Independence Era
	Chapter 25: Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Roman Africa
		Introduction
		The Community of the Martyrs: Roman Persecutions and Early Christians
		Contesting the Community: The Donatist Controversy
		Arianism and the Vandal Century
		Post-Vandal Era—African Christianity as Community of Resistance
		Bibliography
	Chapter 26: Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Ethiopia and Nubia
		Nubia
		Ethiopia
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 27: Mission Station Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: A Spatial Lens
		Setting Up a Station: A Moral Geography
		Engaging with the Station: A Heterotopia
		Changing Meanings on the Station: A Third Space
		The View from the Station: Forming a “Center”
		Beyond the Stations
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 28: Christianity, Witchcraft, Magic, and Healing in Africa
		Introduction
		Christianity and Magic in Precolonial Atlantic Africa
		Healing and Anti-Witchcraft Movements in Colonial Africa
		Prophetic Movements and Occult Powers
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 29: African Women Christians
		Introduction
		Conflict of Colonialism and Gender
		African Women and Ecumenical Culture Shock
		African Women and Ecumenical Works During Colonialism
		Ideological Conflict in Ecumenical Works
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 30: Ethiopianism in Africa
		Introduction
		Ethiopianism in West Africa
		Ethiopianism in Southern Africa
		Ethiopianism in East Africa
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 31: Garveyism and Christianity in Colonial Africa
		Introduction
			On the African Continent
				West Africa
				South-West Africa
				South Africa and Beyond
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
			Unpublished Sources
			Newspapers and Periodicals
			Secondary Literature
	Chapter 32: The East African Revival
		History and Historiography
		Spirituality and Theology in the East African Revival
		Politics
		Legacies of the Revival
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 33: The Transfer of Protestant Mission Churches to African Christians
		Introduction
		The Transformation of the Anglican Church in Nigeria
		Formal Transfer of Western Mission Founded Anglican Church to Nationals
		Other Models of Change of Guard from Mission to Church in Africa
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part IV: The Rooting of Christianity in Africa II: Christian Life in Contemporary Africa
	Chapter 34: Christian Devotional Practice in Contemporary Africa
		Introduction
		The Aesthetics of Devotion: A Methodological Approach
		Varieties of Christian Devotional Practices in Africa
			Orthodoxy
			Roman Catholicism
			Protestantism (General)
			African Independent Churches (AICs)
			Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 35: Catholic Church Growth in Independent Africa
		A Story of Quantitative Growth: The Catholic Church in Independent Africa
		From Christianity in Africa to African Christianity: Inculturation and Africanization in Independent Catholic Africa
		Handmaiden to Democracy and Development: Catholicism’s Growing Public Impact in Postcolonial Africa
		Conclusion: Four Rising Challenges for the African Catholic Church in the Twenty-First Century
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 36: Christian Femininity in Independent Africa
		Introduction
		Femininity and Masculinity in Africa
		The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians and Women Studies in Africa
			Gender Roles in the Home and Society in African Communities
			Gender, Women, and Rites of Passages in Africa
			Women and the Church in Africa
			Women and Health
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 37: Change and Continuity in AIC Church Life and Their Scholarship: A Question of Maturation?
		Introduction—AIC as a Precarious Construct
		Scriptures and Their Interpretation
		Sacred Space and Pilgrimage
		Health and Healing
		Charismatic Leadership
		AIC as African Initiatives in Christianity
		African Initiatives in Christianity and the Global Migrant Experience
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 38: Significant Trends in Contemporary African Pentecostalism
		Spiritual Forces
		Prosperity
		Wider Connections
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 39: African Pentecostalism from an African Perspective
		Introduction
		Historical Antecedents
		The Practice and Expression of African Pentecostalism
		Features of African Pentecostalism
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 40: Missions and Contemporary African Rulers
		Introduction
		African Rulers and Mission Christianity: A Survey
		Methodology
		Revivalism of Chieftaincy Since the 1980s
		The CoP and Chieftaincy
		Akan Religions and Chiefly Amenability to Mission
		CoP Chiefs and Mission Strategies
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 41: African Christianity Rising: Lessons from a Documentary Film Project
		Bibliography
	Chapter 42: African Christians Outside of Africa
		Introduction
		From Africa to the Western World
		African Christians’ Migration to the West
		A Brief Appraisal of Reverse Mission
		The State and Influence of the African Christians in the Western World
		African Christians and Their Political Relevance in the West
		Demography of African Christians in the West
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Index