Nigeria's Christian revolution
Subtitle: the civil war revival and its Pentecostal progeny, 1967-2006
By: Richard Burgess
Series: Regnum studies in mission; Regnum studies in mission
Publisher: Wipf and Stock
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Eugene, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781606080207
Subjects: Pentecostalism; Igbo (African people); Pentecostals; Religion; Pentecostal churches; Church history; Christianity; Pfingstbewegung; History
Notes: Adaptation of the author's thesis (Ph. D)--University of Birmingham, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-340) and index.
Table of contents: title: Constructing African identities; title: The Nigerian context : sketching the landscapes; title: The Civil War revival, 1967-73; title: Neo-Pentecostal church origins, 1970-83; title: Neo-Pentecostal church growth, 1972-2006; title: Revivalists, Pentecostals and public zeal; title: The revival's legacy and the future of Nigerian Pentecostalism.