Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora

Afe Adogame is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society, and Chair of History and Ecumenics Department, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA. He is also Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and author of The African Christian Diaspora (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). Roswith Gerloff is Founding Director of the Centre for Black and White Christian Partnership, Birmingham, UK, and former Senior Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. Klaus Hock is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Rostock, Germany.

The rapid growth of African Christianity is attracting much scholarly attention because of the nature and peculiarities of the emergent Christianity and because its expansion into the global north is reshaping the religious landscape. This book achieves much by interpreting contemporary African Christianity from four perspectives: historically, it looks back to the development of African Christianity from the nineteenth century missionary era to the recent Africanization of Anglicanism. It is attentive to gender, to the explosion of charismatic Pentecostalism without ignoring the African Instituted Churches, and to the various aspects of immigrant Christianities in Germany, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. It weaves African church history into African American and Caribbean fabrics. This is a genuine attempt to underscore the vitality and global significance of a southern Christianity after Christendom and includes the voices of over a dozen African scholars. An important and rich resource for teaching and evaluating contemporary African Christianity.

• List of Contributors \ Prologue Dominique Kounkou \ Introduction Afe Adogame, Roswith Gerloff & Klaus Hock \ Part I: Historical Developments \ 1. Political or Spiritual Partition: The Impact of the 1884/85 Berlin Conference on Christian Missions in Africa Olayemi Akinwumi \ 2. Ecclesiastical Cartography and the Invisible Continent Jonathan Bonk \ 3. Colonization in Africa: The Local and Global Implications for Christianity in Contemporary Nigeria Deji Ayegboyin \ 4. The Role of the Churches in the Struggle for Liberation in Southern Africa: A Thematic Survey Ezra Chitando \ 5. Deconstructing Colonial Mission - New Missiological Perspectives in African Christianity Abraham Akrong \ 6. Baptists in Africa: A Missionary Church in Action Richard Pierard \ 7. The Empire Fights Back - The Invention of African Anglicanism Kevin Ward \ 8. Imperial War-Zones and Frontiers of Conversion Andreas Heuser \ Part II: Gender Perspective \ 9. Paradigmatic Shift: Reconstruction of Female Leadership Roles in the New Generation Churches in South Western Nigeria Bolaji Bateye \ 10. From Holy Ground to Virtual Reality: Aladura Gender Practices in Cyberspace - An African Diaspora Perspective Deidre Helen Crumbley \ 11. Petticoat Partition or Faith-full Friendship? Motives and Outcomes of British Women's Immigration to Africa from the Scramble to the Present Deborah Gaitskell \ 12. HIV/AIDS Discourse and the Quest for a Rebirth in Africa: A Theological Perspective, Nico Botha \ Part III: Charismatic/Pentecostal Perspectives \ 13. Trans-National Religious Networks and Indigenous Pentecostal Missionary Enterprises in the West African Coastal Region Matthews Ojo \ 14. The Role of Charismatic Christianity in Reshaping the Religious Scene in Africa: The Case of Kenya Philomena Njeri Mwaura \ 15. 'I Will Put My Breath in You, and You Will Come to Life': Charismatic Renewal in Ghanaian Mainline Churches and its Implications for African 'Diasporean' Christianity J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu \ 16. Churches of the Spirit: The Pentecostal/Charismatic Movement and Africa's Contribution to the Renewal of Christianity Roswith Gerloff \ 17. Elements of African Religious Spiritual Practices in African American Worship: Resounding Practical Theological Implications Antipas L. Harris \ Part IV: Diasporic Perspectives \ 18. Religion on the Move: Transcultural Perspectives. Discourses on Diaspora Religion between Category Formation and the Quest for Religious Identity Klaus Hock \ 19. Who do they think they are? Mental Images and the Unfolding of an African Diaspora in Germany Afe Adogame \ 20. '. . . the land which the LORD your God giveth you': Two churches founded by African migrants in Oststadt, Germany Evangelos Kariagannis & Nina Glick Schiller \ 21. Colonial Politicization of Religion: Residual Effects on the Ministry of African-led Churches in Britain Dapo Asaju \ 22. The Implication of Mission from a Black Seventh-day Adventist Perspective, with reference to Britain, the Caribbean and Africa Herbert Griffiths \ 23. Kimbaguism as a Migrants' Religion in Europe Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot \ 24. The Position of African Christians in the Netherlands Alle G. Hoekema \ 25. An Ecumenical Challenge at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Koinonia vs. Convivence Benjamin Simon \ 26. The 'Program for Cooperation between German and Foreign Language Churches' and African Churches in the Rhein-Ruhr-Region - Developments from 1999 Ursula Harfst \ Index