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 world’s most adhered to religion is practiced and understood on the continent of Africa.
Table of Content
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 Isichei’s 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: 1450–1800.- Chapter 14. African Initiatives and Agency Within British Protestant Missions in Africa, c.1792–c.1914.- Chapter 15. Abolitionism and the Evangelization of Africa.- Chapter 16. Continental Protestant Missions and the Evangelization of Africa (1800–1880).- Chapter 17. European Settlers and Christianity in Africa.- Chapter 18. Catholic Missions and African Responses II: 1800–1885.- 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./
About the author
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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