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Violent Conversion
Brazilian Pentecostalism and Urban Women in Mozambique
Inbunden, 2016
1109 kr
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Examines Pentecostal conversion as a force of change, revealing new insights into its dominant role in global Christianity today.There has been an extraordinary growth in Pentecostalism in Africa, with Brazilian Pentecostals establishing new transnational Christian connections, initiating …
Beyond Religious Tolerance
Muslim, Christian & Traditionalist Encounters in an African Town
Av Insa Nolte, Olukoya Ogen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1239 kr
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A counterbalance to the predominant study of Islam's role in social and political struggles, this book examines life in Ede, south-west Nigeria, offering important analyses of religious co-existence.Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since 9/11, religion has become an increasingly …
Faith, Power and Family
Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon
Inbunden, 2018
1239 kr
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An innovative study of Christianity and society in Cameroon that illuminates the history of faith and cultural transformation among societies living under French rule 1914 to 1939.Finalist for the 2019 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana ReligionsBetween the two World Wars, the …
Islamic Scholarship in Africa
New Directions and Global Contexts
Häftad, 2023
396 kr
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Cutting-edge research in the study of Islamic scholarship and its impact on the religious, political, economic and cultural history of Africa; bridges the "europhone"/"non-europhone" knowledge divides to significantly advance decolonial thinking, and extend the frontiers of social science research …
Islamic Scholarship in Africa
New Directions and Global Contexts
Inbunden, 2021
1695 kr
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Cutting-edge research in the study of Islamic scholarship and its impact on the religious, political, economic and cultural history of Africa; bridges the "europhone"/"non-europhone" knowledge divides to significantly advance decolonial thinking, and extend the frontiers of social science research …
Contesting Catholics
Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda
Av Jonathon L. Earle, J.J. Carney
Inbunden, 2021
1239 kr
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First scholarly treatment of Uganda's first elected ruler; offers new insights into the religious and political history of modern Uganda.Assassinated by Idi Amin and a democratic ally of J.F. Kennedy during the Cold War, Benedicto Kiwanuka was Uganda's most controversial and disruptive politician, …
Islam in Uganda
The Muslim Minority, Nationalism & Political Power
Inbunden, 2022
1239 kr
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Examines the historical, political, religious, and social dynamics of Muslim minority status in Uganda, and important themes of pre- and post-colonial political community, religion and national identity.Between 2012 and 2016 several Muslim clerics were murdered in Uganda: there is still no …
Beyond Religious Tolerance
Muslim, Christian & Traditionalist Encounters in an African Town
Av Insa Nolte, Olukoya Ogen m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
357 kr
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A counterbalance to the predominant study of Islam's role in social and political struggles, this book examines life in Ede, south-west Nigeria, offering important analyses of religious co-existence.Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since 9/11, religion has become an increasingly …
From Rebels to Rulers
Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State
Av Paul Naylor
Inbunden, 2021
1109 kr
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A reinterpretation of the history of Sokoto that provides a new assessment of its leaders and their visions for the Muslim state.Sokoto was the largest and longest lasting of West Africa's nineteenth-century Muslim empires. Its intellectual and political elite left behind a vast written record, …
Competing Catholicisms
The Jesuits, the Vatican & the Making of Postcolonial French Africa
Inbunden, 2022
1239 kr
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Explores the impact of Jesuit missions on the development of Christianity in postcolonial French Africa, which found itself at the centre of major shifts and struggles within global Christianity and world politics.At a time when most African countries were moving towards independence, the Vatican …
Labour & Christianity in the Mission
African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926
Inbunden, 2021
1109 kr
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Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthropy, but as workers.The important role missions played as places of work has been underexplored, yet missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans who tried to control African …
Sacred Queer Stories
Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee Lives & the Bible
Av Adriaan van Klinken, Johanna Stiebert m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1239 kr
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An invaluable insight into the narrative politics and theologies of LGBTQ+ life-storytelling, a key text for those in African Humanities, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, and Refugee Studies.Presenting the deeply moving personal life stories of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees in Nairobi, Kenya alongside …
Genocide against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches
Between Grief and Denial
Inbunden, 2022
1545 kr
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Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude towards the genocide against the Tutsi which …
Faith, Power and Family
Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon
Häftad, 2022
357 kr
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An innovative study of Christianity and society in Cameroon that illuminates the history of faith and cultural transformation among societies living under French rule 1914 to 1939.Finalist for the 2019 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana ReligionsBetween the two World Wars, the …
Spiritual Contestations – The Violence of Peace in South Sudan
Häftad, 2023
357 kr
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A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authorities draw on to claim or reclaim legitimacy and control.Peace-making can be a violent, arbitrary assertion of power. At the same time, the spheres of …
Slave Emancipation, Christian Communities, and Dissent in Post-Abolition Tanzania, 1878-1978
Inbunden, 2024
1239 kr
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The first historical account of the dramatic growth of Christianity in Western Tanzania during the twentieth century and of the role of former slaves in this process.Examining the intersection of post-slavery and evangelism, this book shows the ways that former slaves from a variety of linguistic …
Christian Faith and Namibian Liberation
An Ethnographic Biography of Salatiel Ailonga
Inbunden, 2025
1109 kr
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Illuminates how Christian communities shaped the trajectory of one nation's liberation struggle through the life of Namibian refugee pastor, Salatiel Ailonga.Born at a Finnish mission station in South West Africa (SWA), Salatiel Ailonga was part of a generation of contract labourers who first …
Contesting Catholics
Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda
Av Jonathon L. Earle, J.J. Carney
Häftad, 2023
357 kr
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First scholarly treatment of Uganda's first elected ruler; offers new insights into the religious and political history of modern Uganda.Assassinated by Idi Amin and a democratic ally of J.F. Kennedy during the Cold War, Benedicto Kiwanuka was Uganda's most controversial and disruptive politician, …
Sacred Queer Stories
Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee Lives & the Bible
Av Adriaan van Klinken, Johanna Stiebert m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
357 kr
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An invaluable insight into the narrative politics and theologies of LGBTQ+ life-storytelling, a key text for those in African Humanities, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, and Refugee Studies.Presenting the deeply moving personal life stories of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees in Nairobi, Kenya alongside …
From Rebels to Rulers
Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State
Av Paul Naylor
Häftad, 2024
299 kr
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A reinterpretation of the history of Sokoto that provides a new assessment of its leaders and their visions for the Muslim state.Sokoto was the largest and longest lasting of West Africa's nineteenth-century Muslim empires. Its intellectual and political elite left behind a vast written record, …
Labour & Christianity in the Mission
African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926
Häftad, 2024
299 kr
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Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthropy, but as workers.The important role missions played as places of work has been underexplored, yet missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans who tried to control African …
Competing Catholicisms
The Jesuits, the Vatican & the Making of Postcolonial French Africa
Häftad, 2024
337 kr
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Explores the impact of Jesuit missions on the development of Christianity in postcolonial French Africa, which found itself at the centre of major shifts and struggles within global Christianity and world politics.At a time when most African countries were moving towards independence, the Vatican …
Genocide against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches
Between Grief and Denial
Häftad, 2024
396 kr
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Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude towards the genocide against the Tutsi which …
Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast
Uchawi in Pemba
Inbunden, 2024
1239 kr
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Traces changing visions of mystical power and authority on the island of Pemba, whose people's reputed resistance to outside rule has shaped the national narratives of both Zanzibar and Tanzania.For two centuries, Pemba, the second largest island of Zanzibar, has been known by East Africans and …
Religious Plurality in Africa
Coexistence, Conviviality, Conflict
Av Marloes Janson, Kai Kresse m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1239 kr
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Grounded in ethnographic and historiographic research and taking a cross-regional approach, this book explores the complex dynamics of similarity and difference, rapprochement and detachment, and divergence and competition between practitioners of Christianity, Islam, and African religious …
Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast
Uchawi in Pemba
Häftad, 2026
337 kr
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Traces changing visions of mystical power and authority on the island of Pemba, whose people's reputed resistance to outside rule has shaped the national narratives of both Zanzibar and Tanzania.For two centuries, Pemba, the second largest island of Zanzibar, has been known by East Africans and …
Islam in Uganda
The Muslim Minority, Nationalism & Political Power
Häftad, 2024
357 kr
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Examines the historical, political, religious, and social dynamics of Muslim minority status in Uganda, and important themes of pre- and post-colonial political community, religion and national identity.Between 2012 and 2016 several Muslim clerics were murdered in Uganda: there is still no …
Religious Plurality in Africa
Coexistence, Conviviality, Conflict
Av Marloes Janson, Kai Kresse m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
357 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Grounded in ethnographic and historiographic research and taking a cross-regional approach, this book explores the complex dynamics of similarity and difference, rapprochement and detachment, and divergence and competition between practitioners of Christianity, Islam, and African religious …
Slave Emancipation, Christian Communities, and Dissent in Post-Abolition Tanzania, 1878-1978
Häftad, 2026
299 kr
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The first historical account of the dramatic growth of Christianity in Western Tanzania during the twentieth century and of the role of former slaves in this process.Examining the intersection of post-slavery and evangelism, this book shows the ways that former slaves from a variety of linguistic …
Histories of Religious Thought and Practice in Africa
Thematic Perspectives
Inbunden, 2024
1498 kr
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This book is a richly detailed comparative analysis of endogenous, Muslim, and Christian religious thought and practice in sub-Saharan Africa. Organized thematically, the book presents a conceptual and analytical framework for the study of religious traditions as complex and constantly evolving …
