Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel / Barbara M. Cooper.
- Cooper, Barbara MacGowan
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- [2006], ©2006
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Publication/Creation
Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2006], ©2006.
Physical description
xii, 462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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 -- Ça bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu -- Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-453) and index.
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