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Nigeria's Christian Revolution : The Civil War Revival and Its Pentecostal Progeny (1967-2006) /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Burgess, Richard (Richard Hugh)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carlisle, Cumbria, England : In partnership with Regnum, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Constructing African identities
  • Defining revival and African Pentecostalism
  • Exploring issues of cause and effect
  • Globalisation, modernisation and local identities
  • Narratives of conversion, oral histories and local theologies
  • Method
  • The Nigerian context: sketching the landscapes
  • Political and socio-economic history, pre-2006
  • The Igbo primal religious landscape, pre-1967
  • The Christian missionary enterprise, 1857-1960
  • Missionary ideologies from the metropolitan centre
  • Local initiatives from the margins, 1914-1960
  • Religious culture in the 1960s
  • Conclusion
  • The civil war revival, 1967-73
  • Expanding religious markets
  • The story of the revival
  • Global flows and local identities
  • Paths to conversion
  • Competing for control of the moral landscape
  • Contesting boundaries and reconstructing collective identities
  • Missionary impulses
  • Pentecostal infiltration
  • Conclusion
  • Neo-Pentecostal church origins, 1970-83
  • A history of neo-Pentecostal beginnings
  • Predisposing conditions
  • Precipitating factors
  • Conclusion
  • Neo-Pentecostal church growth, 1972-2006
  • Negotiating the local and the global
  • Word and worship
  • Alternative communities
  • Faith, health and prosperity
  • Missionary communities
  • Fragmented communities
  • Conclusion
  • Revivalists, Pentecostals and public zeal
  • Scripture union and the politics of Biafra
  • Revivalists, Pentecostals and post-war politics, 1970-79
  • Political corruption, religious politics and democratisation, 1979-2006
  • Social welfare and development initiatives
  • A Pentecostal theology of politics and social concern
  • Conclusion
  • The revival's legacy and the future of Nigerian Pentecostalism
  • The enduring impact of the civil war revival
  • The Pentecostalisation of the mainline churches
  • The future of Nigerian Pentecostalism.