A history of the church in Africa / Bengt Sundkler and Christopher Steed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 1099-1147) and indexes.

Introduction / Bengt Sundkler -- pt. I. The First Fourteen Hundred Years -- Egypt -- North Africa -- Nubia -- Aksum -- pt. II. The Middle Ages 1415-1787 -- Explorers of seas and souls -- West Africa -- Kongo and Soyo -- Angola -- Protestants at the Cape of Good Hope -- South-eastern Africa and Mombasa -- Ethiopia: reversal and well-nigh catastrophe -- pt. III. The Long Nineteenth Century 1787-1919 -- Two diverse maps -- African religions -- The West and Africa: humanitarianism and imperialism -- Missionary societies -- Egypt -- The Maghreb -- Sudan -- Ethiopia -- Senegambia -- Sierra Leone -- Liberia -- Ivory Coast -- Ghana -- Togo -- Benin (Dahomey) -- Nigeria -- Cameroon -- Gabon -- The Catholics -- The Protestants and the Rivers -- Angola -- Cape of Good Hope? -- Southern Nguni -- Northern Nguni -- Lesotho -- The Pedi Drama -- Early migrant labour from the north -- On the Rand -- South Africa 1880-1919 -- The Tswana -- Namibia -- The way north to Zimbabwe -- David Livingstone -- Zambia: The Lozi, the King and the missionary -- Malawi -- Mozambique -- The Church in the Indian Ocean -- Madagascar 1895-1920 -- The Tanzanian Coast -- Southern Tanzania -- Northern Tanzania -- Kenya -- The Church at the Kings' Way -- Buganda, the kabaka and the Missions -- Other Kingdoms of Uganda -- The lake margins: the eight Bukoba kingdoms -- Rwanda and Burundi -- Ushirombo -- Lake Tanganyika and Baudoinville -- Ufipa -- The Bemba.

The late Bengt Sundkler, missionary, bishop, and academic, pioneered the study of independent churches in Africa. In this magisterial work, he reviews the entire history of the development of Christianity in all regions of the continent. In contrast to the conventional focus on the missionary enterprise, Professor Sundkler places the African converts at the centre of the study. African Christians, typically drawn from the margins of society, reinterpreted the Christian message, proselytised, governed local congregations, and organised independent churches. Emphasising African initiatives in the process of Christianisation, he argues that its development was shaped by African kings and courts, the history of labour migration, and local experiences of colonisation. This long-awaited book will become the standard reference on African Christian churches.--Publisher description.

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