Power, poverty, and prayer
Subtitle: the challenges of poverty and pluralism in African Christianity : 1960-1996
By: Ogbu U. Kalu.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Africa -- Church history -- 20th century; Christianity and politics -- Africa -- History -- 20th century; Poverty -- Africa -- History -- 20th century; Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Power and poverty; title: Ashes on our faces : the state, modernization, and poverty; title: Sacred eggs on sacred faces : worldview, ecology, and development failure; title: Tools of hope : stagnation and political theology, 1960-1996; title: Beauty for ashes : Pentecostalism, power, and poverty, 1970-1996; title: Violent faces of religion : the dilemma of pluralism in Nigeria; title: Daughters of Ethiopia : gender, power, and poverty in African Christianity.