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: Paternoster in partnership with Regnum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cumbria, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781870345637
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Christianity; Pentecostalism; Igbo (African people); Religion; Pentecostal churches; Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-340) and index.
Table of contents: title: Constructing African identities; title: Defining revival and African Pentecostalism; title: Exploring issues of cause and effect; title: Globalisation, modernisation and local identities; title: Narratives of conversion, oral histories and local theologies; title: Method; title: The Nigerian context: sketching the landscapes; title: Politcal and socio-economic history, pre-2006; title: The Igbo primal religious landscape, pre-1967; title: The Christian missionary enterprise, 1857-1960; title: Missionary ideologies from the metropolitan centre; title: Local initiatives from the margins, 1914-1960; title: Religious culture in the 1960s; title: Conclusion; title: The civil war revival, 1967-73; title: Expanding religious markets; title: The story of the revival; title: Global flows and local identities; title: Paths to conversion; title: Competing for control of the moral landscape; title: Contesting boundaries and reconstructing collective identities; title: Missionary impulses; title: Pentecostal infiltration; title: Conclusion; title: Neo-Pentecostal church origins, 1970-83; title: A history of neo-Pentecostal beginnings; title: Predisposing conditions; title: Precipitating factors; title: Conclusion; title: Neo-Pentecostal church growth, 1972-2006; title: Negotiating the local and the global; title: Word and worship; title: Alternative communities; title: Faith, health and prosperity; title: Missionary communities; title: Fragmented communities; title: Conclusion; title: Revivalists, Pentecostals and public zeal; title: Scripture union and the politics of Biafra; title: Revivalists, Pentecostals and post-war politics, 1970-79; title: Political corruption, religious politics and democratisation, 1979-2006; title: Social welfare and development initiatives; title: A Pentecostal theology of politics and social concern; title: Conclusion; title: The revival's legacy and the future of Nigerian Pentecostalism; title: The enduring impact of the civil war revival; title: The Pentecostalisation of the mainline churches; title: The future of Nigerian Pentecostalism.