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Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel / Barbara M. Cooper.

By: Cooper, Barbara MacGowan.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: African systems of thought. Publisher: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2006Description: xii, 462 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0253347394 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780253347398.Subject(s): Sudan Interior Mission | SIM (Organization) | Missions -- Niger | Christianity and other religions -- Islam | Islam -- Relations -- Christianity | Christianity -- Niger | Islam -- NigerDDC classification: 266/.0096626 Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
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.
Item type Current location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Byang Kato Research Library
BV3625.N48 C66 2006 (Browse shelf) Available 1042435
Books Books Doctoral Library
PhD BV3625.N48 C66 2006 (Browse shelf) Available 001039601

Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-453) and index.

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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