E-raamat: Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion: The Search for Abundant Life

This volume is a rich repository of fresh research on African Christianity. It offers valuable new readings of religion in Africa, missions history, and the relationship between Africa and the West. More than this, the volume invites a reinterpretation of global Christianity that restores Africa to its rightfully prominent role in the historical narrative. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Africa or global Christianity. -- Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University This book offers an engaging story of African Christianity, a subtle analysis of its logic and dynamic, and a robust discourse of its quest for abundant life. It is a teachable book that expresses the vibrancy of the depth, diversity, and relevance of the Christian vision, practice, and moment in Africa. -- Nimi Wariboko, Boston University Under the general theme of abundant life in Africa, an impressive group of African scholars here address the reality of life in Africa today, and how it might be enhanced from building on Africas own cultural and Christian resources. Their agenda is at the same time ambitious and optimistic, yet realistic and self-critical. They deserve a wide readership in Africa and beyond. -- Paul Gifford, Emeritus Professor, SOAS, University of London This book is a multifaceted and interdisciplinary, self-critical tapestry and interpretation of the historical and contemporary reality of Africa's paradoxpoor and suffering and yet teeming with immense experiences and opportunities of and for abundant life. It explores Africa's indelible and unique contribution to world Christianity and other global dynamics. -- Mary N. Getui, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi