Barnes A.E., Falola T. (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present

Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2024. — XX, 699 p. — ISBN 978-3031482694.This comprehensive Handbook provides chapter length surveys of the history of Christian missions and Christian churches on the African continent since the time of Christ. Africa is rapidly becoming the most Christianized region of the world. While common narratives about Christianity tend to present Christianity as a set of ideas and beliefs imposed on Africa from the outside, such narratives hold little meaning for African Christians or for those seeking to understand Christianity in Africa as an indigenous faith. The aim of the Handbook is to propose a set of scholarly starting points for a new set of narratives. The chapters collected here communicate an idea of Christianity as it has been embraced among African peoples at particular historical moments. It therefore grants voice to the various strands of African Christianity on their own terms, and offers scholarly study of what these voices teach us about how the world’s most adhered to religion is practiced and understood on the continent of Africa.Introduction / Andrew Eugene Barnes
Part I Mentors
The Writings and Influence of Edward W. Blyden / Moses Moore
The Writings and Legacy of John Mbiti / Harvey Kwiyani
The Writings and Legacy of Adrian Hastings / Kevin Ward
Elizabeth Isichei’s Contributions to the Study of Christianity / Toyin Falola
The Writings and Legacy of Andrew Walls / Jonathan Bonk
The Writings and Legacy of Lamin Sanneh / Joel Carpenter
The Writings and Legacy of John Peel / Toyin Falola
The Legacy of Terrence Ranger for Historians of African Christianity / David Maxwell
The Writings and Legacy of J. F. Ade Ajayi / Femi J. Kolapo
The Writings and Legacy of Ogbu Kalu / Toyin Falola
Part II Trans-Atlantic Christianity in Africa
Missionaries and African Christians / Emma Wild-Wood
Catholic Missions and African Responses I: 1450–1800 / Paul Kollman
African Initiatives and Agency Within British Protestant Missions in Africa, c.1792–c.1914 / Brian Stanley
Abolitionism and the Evangelization of Africa / David Killingray
Continental Protestant Missions and the Evangelization of Africa (1800–1880) / Paul Glen Grant
European Settlers and Christianity in Africa / Norman Etherington
Catholic Missions and African Responses II: 1800–1885 / Paul Kollman
European Christianity and European Imperialism in Africa / David Lindenfeld
New World Ethiopianism and the Evangelization of Africa / Kimberly Hill
Catholic Missions and Colonial States / Elizabeth Foster
Protestant Missions and Colonial States / Andrew Eugene Barnes
Women Missionaries and the Evangelization of Women in Africa / Rebecca C. Hughes
Christian Africans, Muslim Africans, and the European Colonial Project / Shobana Shankar
Part III The Rooting of Christianity in Africa I: Christian Life from Ancient Times to the Independence Era
Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Roman Africa / Eric Fournier and Mark Lewis Tizzoni
Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Ethiopia and Nubia / Vince Bantu
Mission Station Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: A Spatial Lens / Ingie Hovland
Christianity, Witchcraft, Magic, and Healing in Africa / Kalle Kananoja and Markku Hokkanen
African Women Christians / Toyin Falola
Ethiopianism in Africa / Ethan R. Sanders
Garveyism and Christianity in Colonial Africa / Ciprian Burlăcioiu
The East African Revival / Jason Bruner
The Transfer of Protestant Mission Churches to African Christians / Musa Gaiya
Part IV The Rooting of Christianity in Africa II: Christian Life in Contemporary Africa
Christian Devotional Practice in Contemporary Africa / Katharina Wilkens
Catholic Church Growth in Independent Africa / J. J. Carney
Christian Femininity in Independent Africa / Dorothy Tembo
Change and Continuity in AIC Church Life and Their Scholarship: A Question of Maturation? / Retief Müller
Significant Trends in Contemporary African Pentecostalism / Paul Gifford
African Pentecostalism from an African Perspective / Paul Mwangi and Kyama Mugambi
Missions and Contemporary African Rulers / Charles Prempeh
African Christianity Rising: Lessons from a Documentary Film Project / James M. Ault, Jr.
African Christians Outside of Africa / Enoch Oolujide Gbadegesin
Index