Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel
By: Barbara M. Cooper.
Series: African systems of thought
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Sudan Interior Mission.; SIM (Organization); Missions -- Niger.; Christianity and other religions -- Islam.; Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.; Christianity -- Niger.; Islam -- Niger.
Description: Barbara M. Cooper looks closely at the Sudan Interior Mission, an evangelical Christian mission that has taken a tenuous hold in a predominantly Hausa Muslim area on the southern fringe of Niger. Based on sustained fieldwork, personal interviews, and archival research, this vibrant, sensitive, compelling, and candid book gives a unique glimpse into an important dimension of religious life in Africa. Cooper's involvement in a violent religious riot provides a useful backdrop for introducing other themes and concerns such as Bible translation, medical outreach, public preaching, tensions between English-speaking and French-speaking missionaries, and the Christian mission's changing views of Islam. - Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: fundamental differences; title: Anatomy of a riot; title: Love and violence; title: From "satan's masterpiece" to "the social problem of islam"; title: A hausa spiritual vernacular; title: African agency and the growth of the church in the Maradi Region, 1927-1960; title: Disciplining the Christian : defining elderhood, Christian marriage, and "God's work," 1933-1955; title: "An extremely dangerous suspect" : from vichy-era travails to postwar triumph; title: Impasses in vernacular education, 1945-1995; title: Handmaid to the gospel : SIM's medical work in Niger, 1944-1975; title: The tree of life : regenerating and gendering the garden after the fall, 1975-2000; title: [C,CED] a bouge : hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu; title: Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion.