African Christianity: Its Public RolePaul Gifford examines African Christianity in the mid-1990s against the back ground of the continent's current social, economic, and political circumstances. Gifford sheds light on the dynamics of African churches and churchgoers, and assesses their different contributions to political developments since 1989. He also evaluates the churches' role in promoting a civil society in Africa. Detailed analyses of the state of the churches in Ghana, Uganda, Zambia, and Cameroon suggest more general patterns operating widely across sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Page 169
... mainline churches and why one turns to the new pentecostal ones ) extends to disgust at the way some of the mainline churches are run . Another important consideration is the impoverished circumstances in which Ugandan Christians find ...
... mainline churches and why one turns to the new pentecostal ones ) extends to disgust at the way some of the mainline churches are run . Another important consideration is the impoverished circumstances in which Ugandan Christians find ...
Page 329
... mainline churches a rather ambiguous character . Their official theology and activity and public pronouncements tend to be of the Westernised kind , but most of their members have a very different understanding and widely divergent ...
... mainline churches a rather ambiguous character . Their official theology and activity and public pronouncements tend to be of the Westernised kind , but most of their members have a very different understanding and widely divergent ...
Page 343
... mainline churches is merely perfunctory ; that charismatic churches change personal behaviour , but mainline churches have no effect on life . In Africa none of these assumptions is necessarily true . One has only to attend the Anglican ...
... mainline churches is merely perfunctory ; that charismatic churches change personal behaviour , but mainline churches have no effect on life . In Africa none of these assumptions is necessarily true . One has only to attend the Anglican ...
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Accra African Christianity AICs American Angley Anglican anglophone Apostolic Archbishop Baganda Bamenda Bamileke Bamwoze Baptist Biya blessing born-again Busoga Cameroon Catholic bishops Catholic Church centre Chiluba Christ Christian Council Christian Zionism church leaders Church of Uganda civil society claimed clergy colonial committee conference congregations considerable constitution corruption crusades cultural deliverance Democracy demons Derek Prince diocese Douala Duncan-Williams economic elections élite established Evangelical evangelist example expatriate Faith Gospel Full Gospel funds Ghana Ghanaian groups Ibid important independence International involvement Jesus Kampala Kaunda Kumasi leadership London Lusaka mainline churches ministry Mirror Mission missionaries movement Museveni Muslim nation Ndongmo Nevers Mumba Nigeria Nkongsamba Obote organisations Otabil pastor Pentecostal Pentecostal churches political preaching Presbyterian President priests programme Protestant Rawlings Religion religious role Rwanda social spirit structures Synod theology traditional University Press Western World Yaoundé Zaïre Zambia