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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... religious leaders and the state interact ' to seek to achieve a hegemonic ideology that stresses the desirability of stability rather than progressive change ... Senior religious figures usually seek to defuse , reduce and , when ...
... religious leaders and the state interact ' to seek to achieve a hegemonic ideology that stresses the desirability of stability rather than progressive change ... Senior religious figures usually seek to defuse , reduce and , when ...
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... religious influence is only one aspect of a broader influence , economic , political and cultural . The religious traffic moves alongside the economic traffic , sometimes with the religious slightly ahead of the economic , and sometimes ...
... religious influence is only one aspect of a broader influence , economic , political and cultural . The religious traffic moves alongside the economic traffic , sometimes with the religious slightly ahead of the economic , and sometimes ...
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... religious or moral order than on the utilisation of efficient technical means and appropriate behaviour . In these circumstances changes are evident in the way people think . It is not just that the media and education diffuse an ...
... religious or moral order than on the utilisation of efficient technical means and appropriate behaviour . In these circumstances changes are evident in the way people think . It is not just that the media and education diffuse an ...
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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