Clio in a sacred garb
Subtitle: essays on Christian presence and African responses, 1900-2000
By: Ogbu U. Kalu.
Publisher: Africa World Press; Africa Research & Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Africa -- Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Method and context; title: Clio in a sacred garb : telling the story of gospel-people encounters in our time; title: The gods are to blame : ecology, religious worldview, and history; title: The rock and the muse : poverty and its alleviation in colonial West Africa; title: Part II: Agency, voice, and exit under the colonial canopy; title: Black missionaries white abolitionists : the careers of Joseph and Mary Gomer in the Good Hope Mission, Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone, 1871-1894; title: Like hanging a ladder in the air : talking about African education in Edinburgh Conference, 1910; title: Nthowa Yifupi : Edinburgh Conference 1910 and ethiopianism in African Christianity; title: Nthangata : African Christianity in the world wars, 1914-1945; title: Part III: Cameos of contemporary responses in African Christianity; title: Passive revolution and its saboteurs : decolonizing the African church, 1945-1975; title: Pentecostal-charismatic reshaping of the African religious landscape in the 1990's; title: James Cone's legacy in Africa : confession as political praxis in the Kairos Document; title: Theological education in contemporary Africa.