Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-6127-3 • Hardback • November 2017 • $136.00 • (£105.00)
978-1-4985-6128-0 • eBook • November 2017 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
Stan Chu Ilo is research professor at the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University and president of Canadian Samaritans for Africa.
Foreword by Esther Acolatse
Introduction: “The Search for Abundant Life in African Christian Religion: Historical Reinterpretation of Christian Mission in Africa”—Stan Chu Ilo
African Christian Religions and the Quest for Health, Healing and Wholeness
1. “African Christian Religion: Its Scope in the Global Context”—Caleb O. Oladipo
2. “In Quest of Wholeness: African Christians in the New Christianity” —David Tonghou Ngong
3. “Searching for Healing in a Miraculous Stream: The Fate of God’s People in Africa” — Stan Chu Ilo
African Pentecostalism and the Ecology of Sickness and Evil
4. “Eradicating Evil in the Search for Practices of Hope in Africa: Witchcraft Beliefs and Accusations in Contemporary Ghanaian Christianity”—Cyril G. K. Fayose
5. “Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal as a Socio-Religious Phenomenon for Transformation in Africa”— Clement Majawa
6. “Taking Africa out of the African: Eco-Community, the Christian Heritage of Empire and Neo-Pentecostalism in Africa”—Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo
Mission, Money, Wealth, and the Search for Abundant Life
7. “The African Peoples and Money: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”—Nathanaël Soede
8. “The Place of Money in Mission Between Africa and the West: A Personal Narrative”—Jim Harries
9. “Nigeria, Europe and Christian Mission: Models of Economic Collaboration in the 21st Century”—Felix Enegho
10. “The African Church and the Impact of Contemporary Fundraising and Sustainability”—Levi Nkwocha
11. “To Recycle or Not to Recycle: An Ethical Question in Africa's Relation with the West”—Aloysius Ochasi, Peter Clark, and Michael Barkowski
12. “In the Wake of Overt Religiosity: A Critical and Appreciative Perspective on Religion as a Force for Social Transformation and Development in African society”—Obaji M. Agbiji and Ignatius Swart
This volume is a rich repository of fresh research on African Christianity. It offers valuable new readings of religion in Africa, missions history, and the relationship between Africa and the West. More than this, the volume invites a reinterpretation of global Christianity that restores Africa to its rightfully prominent role in the historical narrative. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Africa or global Christianity.
— Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University
This book offers an engaging story of African Christianity, a subtle analysis of its logic and dynamic, and a robust discourse of its quest for abundant life. It is a teachable book that expresses the vibrancy of the depth, diversity, and relevance of the Christian vision, practice, and moment in Africa.
— Nimi Wariboko, Boston University
Under the general theme of abundant life in Africa, an impressive group of African scholars here address the reality of life in Africa today, and how it might be enhanced from building on Africa’s own cultural and Christian resources. Their agenda is at the same time ambitious and optimistic, yet realistic and self-critical. They deserve a wide readership in Africa and beyond.
— Paul Gifford, Emeritus Professor, SOAS, University of London
This book is a multifaceted and interdisciplinary, self-critical tapestry and interpretation of the historical and contemporary reality of Africa's paradox—poor and suffering and yet teeming with immense experiences and opportunities of and for abundant life. It explores Africa's indelible and unique contribution to world Christianity and other global dynamics.
— Mary N. Getui, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi