East African Expressions of Christianity

All the studies in this valuable volume are well worth reading. [...] They provide a series of important insights into the challenges and opportunities confronting African Christians as they seek guidance from their faith and proclaim its global relevance for the twenty-first century.

• Part 1 Introduction: toward the history of African Christianity, Thomas Spear; African theology and the search for the universal, Gregory H. Maddox. Part 2 Mission: Chaga religion and missionary Christianity on Kilimanjaro - the initial phase, 1893-1916, Anza A. Lema; the impact of Christianity among the Zaramo - a case study of Maneromango Lutheran Parish, Isaria N. Kimambo; they do the dictating and we must submit - the Africa Inland Mission in Maasailand, Richard Waller. Part 3 Conversion and popular evangelism: the creation of a Catholic Fipa society - conversion in Nkansi district, Ufipa, Kathleen R. Smythe; the church and Cigogo - Father Stephen Mlundi and Christianity in central Tanzania, Gregory H. Maddox. Part 4 Struggles for control: Kamba Christianity - from Africa Inland Church to African Brotherhood Church, David Sandgren; the making of an independent church - the case of the African Missionary Evangelical Church among the Meru of Tanzania, C.K. Omari; Bundu dia Kongo - a Kongolese self-styled fundamentalist movement, Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba. Part 5 Charismatic prophecy and healing: the Church of the Holy Spirit - biblical beliefs and practices of the Arathi of Kenya, 1926-1950, Francis Kimani Githeya. Part 6 Protestant revival and popular Catholicism: the politics of popular Catholicism in Uganda, Ron Kassimir; the Marian faith healing ministry - an African expression of popular Catholicism in Tanzania, Christopher Comoro and John Sivalon; contending for the faith - spiritual revival and the Fellowship Church in Tanzania, Josiah R. Mlahagwa. Part 7 Christianity and society: family life, indigenous culture and Christianity in colonial Njombe, James Giblin.