Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel / Barbara M. Cooper.
By: Cooper, Barbara MacGowan.
Material type: BookSeries: 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 contentsItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Byang Kato Research Library | BV3625.N48 C66 2006 (Browse shelf) | Available | 1042435 | |
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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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