Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel /

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In this volume, Barbara Cooper focuses on the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM). Her work is as much an ethnography of Christian conversion and worship as it is a close look into Muslim practices and attitudes about others. She is a marvelous storyteller and her work is laced with personal stories and vi...

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Autor principal: Cooper, Barbara MacGowan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sudan Interior Mission.
SIM (Organization)
Missionarissen.
Missions.
Islam.
Interfaith relations.
Christianity.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions.
Christianisme.
Islam > Niger.
Christianisme > Niger.
Islam > Relations > Christianisme.
Christianisme > Relations > Islam.
Religious Missions
Islam
Christianity
Christianity > Niger.
Islam > Relations > Christianity.
Christianity and other religions > Islam.
Missions > Niger.
Sudan.
Niger.
Niger
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: fundamental differences
  • Anatomy of a riot
  • Love and violence
  • From "Satan's masterpiece" to "the social problem of Islam"
  • A Hausa spiritual vernacular
  • African agency and the growth of the church in the Maradi Region, 1927-1960
  • Disciplining the Christian : defining elderhood, Christian marriage, and "God's work," 1933-1955
  • "An extremely dangerous suspect" : from Vichy-era travails to postwar triumph
  • Impasses in vernacular education, 1945-1995
  • Handmaid to the gospel : SIM's medical work in Niger, 1944-1975
  • The tree of life : regenerating and gendering the garden after the fall, 1975-2000
  • Ca̧ bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu
  • Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion.

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