A history of African Christianity, 1950-1975 / Adrian Hastings.

By: Hastings, Adrian

Material type: Text

TextSeries: African studies series: Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979Description: xi, 336 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0521222125; 0521293979 (pbk.)Subject(s): Christianity -- AfricaDDC classification: 276 LOC classification: BR1360 | .H33Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only

Contents:

Introduction -- 1950 -- 1951-1958 -- 1959-1966 -- 1967-1975 -- Between Politics and Prayer

Summary: Counter The churches in Africa probably constitute the most important growth area for Christianity in the second half of the twentieth century. From being a number of rather tightly controlled 'mission fields' zealously guarded by the great missionary societies, Catholic and Protestant, they have emerged across the last decades in bewildering variety to selfhood, a membership of close on a hundred million adherents and an influential role both within their own societies and in the world church. This book surveys the history of Christianity throughout sub-Saharan Africa during the third quarter of this century. It begins in 1950 at a time when the churches were still for the most part emphatically part of the colonial order and it takes the story on from there across the coming of political independence and the transformations of the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Books / Monographs	Dominican University College Library / Collège Universitaire Dominicain Hours of operation: Monday - Thursday 8am - 8:30 pm; Friday 8am - 4pm \| Les heures d'ouverture : Lundi à jeudi de 8 h à 20 h 30; vendredi 8h - 16h Standard shelving location / Rayonnage standard	BR 1360 .H364 H57 1979 (Browse shelf (Opens below))	Available		30000000311468

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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 303-321.

Introduction -- 1950 -- 1951-1958 -- 1959-1966 -- 1967-1975 -- Between Politics and Prayer

Counter The churches in Africa probably constitute the most important growth area for Christianity in the second half of the twentieth century. From being a number of rather tightly controlled 'mission fields' zealously guarded by the great missionary societies, Catholic and Protestant, they have emerged across the last decades in bewildering variety to selfhood, a membership of close on a hundred million adherents and an influential role both within their own societies and in the world church. This book surveys the history of Christianity throughout sub-Saharan Africa during the third quarter of this century. It begins in 1950 at a time when the churches were still for the most part emphatically part of the colonial order and it takes the story on from there across the coming of political independence and the transformations of the 1960s and early 1970s.

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