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Religious conversion : an African perspective / Brendan Carmody, editor.

Contributor(s): Carmody, Brendan Patrick [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lusaka, Zambia : Gadsden Publishers, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 270 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789982240963; 998224096XSubject(s): Conversion | Conversion -- Social aspects -- Africa | Conversion -- Christianity | Conversion -- Islam | Africa -- ReligionBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Mission history in Africa: new perspectives on an encounter / Robert Strayer -- African conversion: a historical overview / Brendan Carmody -- African conversion / Robin Horton -- Conversion reconsidered: some historical aspects of religious conversion in Black Africa / Humphrey J. Fisher -- On the rationality of conversion, part I / Robin Horton -- On the rationality of conversion, part II / Robin Horton -- The juggernaut's apologia: conversion to Islam in Black Africa / Humphrey J. Fisher -- Christianity and religious change in Africa / Richard Gray -- Leza into God, God into Leza / Elizabeth Colson -- Conversion and school at Chikuni: 1905-1939 / Brendan Carmody -- Catholic conversion and school in Africa today / Brendan Carmody -- The nature and role of conversion in Zambia / Brendan Carmody -- African conversion: entering the fold of Islam / Felix J. Phiri -- Conversion to Pentecostalism in Zambia / Austin M. Cheyeka -- Religious change in Zambia / W. Van Binsbergen -- Encounter between advocate and convert / Lewis R. Rambo.

Includes bibliographical references.

Mission history in Africa: new perspectives on an encounter / Robert Strayer -- African conversion: a historical overview / Brendan Carmody -- African conversion / Robin Horton -- Conversion reconsidered: some historical aspects of religious conversion in Black Africa / Humphrey J. Fisher -- On the rationality of conversion, part I / Robin Horton -- On the rationality of conversion, part II / Robin Horton -- The juggernaut's apologia: conversion to Islam in Black Africa / Humphrey J. Fisher -- Christianity and religious change in Africa / Richard Gray -- Leza into God, God into Leza / Elizabeth Colson -- Conversion and school at Chikuni: 1905-1939 / Brendan Carmody -- Catholic conversion and school in Africa today / Brendan Carmody -- The nature and role of conversion in Zambia / Brendan Carmody -- African conversion: entering the fold of Islam / Felix J. Phiri -- Conversion to Pentecostalism in Zambia / Austin M. Cheyeka -- Religious change in Zambia / W. Van Binsbergen -- Encounter between advocate and convert / Lewis R. Rambo.

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