This comprehensive Handbook provides chapter length surveys of the history of Christian missions and Christian churches on the African continent since the time of Christ. Africa is rapidly becoming the most Christianized region of the world. While common narratives about Christianity tend to present Christianity as a set of ideas and beliefs imposed on Africa from the outside, such narratives hold little meaning for African Christians or for those seeking to understand Christianity in Africa as an indigenous faith. The aim of the Handbook is to propose a set of scholarly starting points for a new set of narratives. The chapters collected here communicate an idea of Christianity as it has been embraced among African peoples at particular historical moments. It therefore grants voice to the various strands of African Christianity on their own terms, and offers scholarly study of what these voices teach us about how the worlds most adhered to religion is practiced and understood on the continent of Africa.
Chapter
1. Introduction.- Part I Mentors.
Chapter
2. The Writings and
Influence of Edward W. Blyden.
Chapter
3. The Writings and Legacy of John
Mbiti.
Chapter
4. The Writings and Legacy of Adrian Hastings.
Chapter
5.
Elizabeth Isicheis Contributions to the Study of Christianity.
Chapter
6.
The Writings and Legacy of Andrew Walls.
Chapter
7. The Writings and Legacy
of Lamin Sanneh.
Chapter
8. The Writings and Legacy of John Peel.
Chapter
9. The Legacy of Terrence Ranger for Historians of African Christianity.-
Chapter
10. The Writings and Legacy of J. F. Ade Ajayi.
Chapter
11. The
Writings and Legacy of Ogbu Kalu.- Part II Trans-Atlantic Christianity in
Africa.
Chapter
12. Missionaries and African Christians.
Chapter
13.
Catholic Missions and African Responses I: 14501800.
Chapter
14. African
Initiatives and Agency Within British Protestant Missions in Africa,
c.1792c.1914.
Chapter
15. Abolitionism and the Evangelization of Africa.-
Chapter
16. Continental ProtestantMissions and the Evangelization of Africa
(18001880).
Chapter
17. European Settlers and Christianity in Africa.-
Chapter
18. Catholic Missions and African Responses II: 18001885.
Chapter
19. European Christianity and European Imperialism in Africa.
Chapter
20.
New World Ethiopianism and the Evangelization of Africa.
Chapter
21.
Catholic Missions and Colonial States.
Chapter
22. Protestant Missions and
Colonial States.
Chapter
23. Women Missionaries and the Evangelization of
Women in Africa.
Chapter
24. Christian Africans, Muslim Africans, and the
European Colonial Project.- Part III The Rooting of Christianity in Africa I:
Christian Life from Ancient Times to the Independence Era.
Chapter
25.
Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Roman Africa.
Chapter
26.
Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Ethiopia and Nubia.
Chapter
27. Mission Station Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: A Spatial Lens.-
Chapter
28. Christianity, Witchcraft, Magic, and Healing in Africa.
Chapter
29. African Women Christians.
Chapter
30. Ethiopianism in Africa.
Chapter
31. Garveyism and Christianity in Colonial Africa.
Chapter
32. The East
African Revival.
Chapter
33. The Transfer of Protestant Mission Churches to
African Christians.- Part IV The Rooting of Christianity in Africa II:
Christian Life in Contemporary Africa.
Chapter
34. Christian Devotional
Practice in Contemporary Africa.
Chapter
35. Catholic Church Growth in
Independent Africa.
Chapter
36. Christian Femininity in Independent Africa.-
Chapter
37. Change and Continuity in AIC Church Life and Their Scholarship: A
Question of Maturation?.
Chapter
38. Significant Trends in Contemporary
African Pentecostalism.
Chapter
39. African Pentecostalism from an African
Perspective.
Chapter
40. Missions and Contemporary African Rulers.
Chapter
41. African Christianity Rising: Lessons from a Documentary Film Project.-
Chapter
42. African Christians Outside of Africa./
Andrew E. Barnes is Professor of History at Arizona State University, USA. He is the author of The Social Dimension of Piety: Associative Life and Religious Change in the Penitent Confraternities of Marseille 1499-1792 (1994), Making Headway: The Introduction of Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria (2009), and Global Christianity and the Black Atlantic: Tuskegee, Colonialism and the Shaping of African Industrial Education (2017). Presently he is working on a monograph of the evolution of Ethiopianism among Christians of African descent across the Atlantic, 1780-1930.
Toyin Falola is University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
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