Evangelical Christians in the Muslim SahelIndiana University Press, 10. juuli 2006 - 472 pages This “fascinating historical account” of a Christian mission in Niger offers a personal and richly detailed look at religious institutions in the region (Religious Studies Review). 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. |
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... Despite my modest-to-the-point-of-dowdiness research attire, I am quite clearly an outsider. As a white woman on foot I am also an anomaly. With my overflowing backpack of vegetables and the time, money, and temerity to stop with the ...
... Despite my modest-to-the-point-of-dowdiness research attire, I am quite clearly an outsider. As a white woman on foot I am also an anomaly. With my overflowing backpack of vegetables and the time, money, and temerity to stop with the ...
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... Despite its heavy dependence on the U.S. capitalist economy, this movement did not by any means espouse externally oriented legitimate commerce for Africans, nor did it envision an educated African acculturated to Euro-American life as ...
... Despite its heavy dependence on the U.S. capitalist economy, this movement did not by any means espouse externally oriented legitimate commerce for Africans, nor did it envision an educated African acculturated to Euro-American life as ...
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... despite their differing churches of origin, found common cause with one another, sharing publications, favoring particular popular preachers (Dwight Moody and Billy Graham represent two such major leaders), cooperating in translation ...
... despite their differing churches of origin, found common cause with one another, sharing publications, favoring particular popular preachers (Dwight Moody and Billy Graham represent two such major leaders), cooperating in translation ...
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... despite the links between their missionary enterprise and the broader Christian right in the United States. In particular, evangelicals who associate the word “fundamentalism” with a naive creationism that they themselves find ...
... despite the links between their missionary enterprise and the broader Christian right in the United States. In particular, evangelicals who associate the word “fundamentalism” with a naive creationism that they themselves find ...
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... despite a sense that the colonial enterprise would free Africans from the thrall of the practices of the past. Tradition seems to be a remarkably slippery reference point for administrator, his- torian, missionary, and Islamic reformist ...
... despite a sense that the colonial enterprise would free Africans from the thrall of the practices of the past. Tradition seems to be a remarkably slippery reference point for administrator, his- torian, missionary, and Islamic reformist ...
Contents
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2 Love and Violence | 61 |
3 From Satans Masterpiece to The Social Problem of Islam | 84 |
4 A Hausa Spiritual Vernacular | 115 |
5 African Agency and the Growth of the Church in the Maradi Region 19271960 | 147 |
Defining Elderhood Christian Marriage and Gods Work 19331955 | 183 |
From VichyEra Travails to Postwar Triumph | 224 |
SIMs Medical Work in Niger 19441975 | 290 |
Regenerating and Gendering the Garden after the Fall 19752000 | 329 |
Hausa Christian Practice in a Muslim Milieu | 363 |
SIMs Successors and the Pentecostal Explosion | 400 |
GLOSSARY | 413 |
NOTES | 415 |
WORKS CONSULTED | 435 |
INDEX | 455 |
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