Religion, development and African identity

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Title:	Religion, development and African identity
Editor:	Petersen, Kirsten Holst
Chapter(s):	Present
Year:	1987
Issue:	17
Pages:	163
Language:	English
Series:	Seminar proceedings from the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies (ISSN 0281-0018)
City of publisher:	Uppsala
Publisher:	Scandinavian Institute of African Studies
ISBN:	9171062637
Geographic term:	Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:	African identity religion social change
Abstract:	Collection of papers which were presented at a conference on 'Religion, Development and African Identity', jointly arranged by the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies and the Nordic Institute of Missionary Research in Uppsala, Sweden, 16th to 21st August 1984. Contents: Preface, by C.F. HALLENCREUTZ - The shattered microsm: a critical survey of explanations of conversion in Africa, by E. IKENGA-METUH - Religion development and African Christian identity, by T. RANGER - Religion and politics in Zimbabwe, by A.M. MOYO - African church history in a new key, by B. SUNDKLER - Religious change as transaction: the Norwegian mission to Zululand, South Africa 1850-1906, by J. SIMENSEN - The Arab influence on Madagascar, by L. MUNTHE - The identity of women in African development, by M.L. SWANTZ - Islam, development and African identity: the case of West Africa, by P.B. CLARKE - Concluding summary, by T. RANGER.