Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel

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Indiana University Press, 10 jul 2006 - 472 pagina's
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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Inhoudsopgave

Fundamental Differences
1
1 Anatomy of a Riot
31
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

8 Impasses in Vernacular Education 19451995
253

Overige edities - Alles bekijken

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Populaire passages

Pagina 309 - And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks : and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.
Pagina 61 - And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind ; and thy neighbour as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right ; this do and thou shalt live.
Pagina 181 - And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Pagina 181 - But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.
Pagina 81 - He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself; he that believeth not God, hath made him a liar ; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
Pagina 31 - So when they continued asking Him, He lifted up Himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Pagina 418 - Flee also youthful lusts : but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Pagina 31 - And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery...

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Barbara M. Cooper is Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is author of Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900–1989.

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