Religious conversion
Subtitle: an African perspective
By: Brendan Carmody, editor
Publisher: Gadsden Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lusaka, Zambia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9789982240963
Subjects: Conversion; Social aspects; Christianity; Islam; Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Mission history in Africa: new perspectives on an encounter / Robert Strayer; title: African conversion: a historical overview / Brendan Carmody; title: African conversion / Robin Horton; title: Conversion reconsidered: some historical aspects of religious conversion in Black Africa / Humphrey J. Fisher; title: On the rationality of conversion, part I / Robin Horton; title: On the rationality of conversion, part II / Robin Horton; title: The juggernaut's apologia: conversion to Islam in Black Africa / Humphrey J. Fisher; title: Christianity and religious change in Africa / Richard Gray; title: Leza into God, God into Leza / Elizabeth Colson; title: Conversion and school at Chikuni: 1905-1939 / Brendan Carmody; title: Catholic conversion and school in Africa today / Brendan Carmody; title: The nature and role of conversion in Zambia / Brendan Carmody; title: African conversion: entering the fold of Islam / Felix J. Phiri; title: Conversion to Pentecostalism in Zambia / Austin M. Cheyeka; title: Religious change in Zambia / W. Van Binsbergen; title: Encounter between advocate and convert / Lewis R. Rambo.