Christianity and Social Change in Africa: Essays in honor of J.D.Y. Peel

Peel, John David Yeadon; Falola, Toyin

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Title:	Christianity and Social Change in Africa: Essays in honor of J.D.Y. Peel
Editors:	Peel, John David Yeadon Falola, Toyin
Chapter(s):	Present
Year:	2005
Pages:	676
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Durham, NC
Publisher:	Carolina Academic Press
ISBN:	1594601356
Geographic terms:	Africa Burkina Faso Ghana Nigeria Cameroon Kenya
Subjects:	Christianity missions Church society social change biobibliographies (form)
About person:	John David Yeadon Peel (1941-2015)
Abstract:	Collective volume dedicated to J.D.Y. Peel examining the African encounter with Christianity, showing the dynamics of Christianity, the agencies of modernization and globalization, and the adaptation to new ideas. Part A Introduction (T. Falola & T.C. McCaskie). Part B Yoruba world: the cultural work of Yoruba globalization (S. Palmié); 'confusion' and empiricism (J.I. Guyer); the integration into Yoruba society of Ewe fishermen (A. Klein); women's misbehaviour in Ado-Odo (A. Cornwall); religious textiles (E.P. Renne); shrine and mission sanctuary in West Africa (S.T. Barnes). Part C Media, politics and nationalism: the Yoruba-English vernacular press in 1920s Lagos (K. Barber); Wole Soyinka's 'Isara' (I. Nolte); press coverage of religion in contemporary Nigeria (M.A. Ojo). Part D Aladura and Pentecostalism: the economics of Pentecostal activism in Nigeria (A.F.-K. Ukah); Pentecostal presentation of traditional religion in Ghanaian popular films (B. Meyer); Aladura and Born-Again Yoruba Christianity in London (H. Harris); the early Aladura of Igboland 1925-1975 (O.U. Kalu); the encounter between Christianity and an Afro-Brazilian religion, the 'jarê' (M.C.M. Rabelo). Part E Christianity and knowledge without borders: Christian-Muslim relations in Africa (M.H. Kukah); the Qua Iboe Mission of southeastern Nigeria (D. Pratten); the mission of the White Fathers among the Dagara of Ghana and Burkina Faso (C. Lentz); women and change in Amedzofe, Ghana (L. Brydon); Anglicanism in the life of Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh (T.C. McCaskie); maps, land disputes and the Basel Mission in colonial Cameroon (G. Thomas); religion and healing in Hausaland (M. Last); patriotic Christianity among young Kikuyu, Kenya (J. Lonsdale); themes in Marx, Weber and Durkheim (G. Williams); Swahili 'baraza' culture in Mombasa (K. Kresse). [ASC Leiden abstract]