Reprint
Religious Conversion in Africa
Edited by
October 2020
126 pages
- ISBN978-3-03943-034-5 (Hardback)
- ISBN978-3-03943-035-2 (PDF)
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Religious Conversion in Africa that was published in
Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary
This collection brings together a diverse range of scholars, including historians of pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary Africa, along with anthropologists, who develop fresh arguments and reassessments of religious, cultural, and social change pertaining to Africa. The result is a fascinating array of research that offers critical, creative, and constructive analyses of religious change on the African continent, from the medieval period to the present.
Format
- Hardback
License
© 2020 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
Orthodox Christianity; conversion; ritualism; religiosity; Uganda; modernity; post-coloniality; globalism; anti-globalism; Ethiopian Orthodox Church; religious conversion; women; representation; medieval Christianity; hagiography; conversion; social engagement; faith-based NGO; Ahmadiyya; Burkina Faso; France; Pentecostal/charismatic missionization; spiritual warfare; networks; Roman Catholicism; conversion; reconversion; modernity; linearity; missionaries; Mozambique; Mormonism; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Anthony Obinna; religious conversion; southeastern Nigeria; Rastafari; Ghana; Jamaica; Pan-African; trodding the path; livity; conversion; Africa; anthropology of Christianity; history; Africana religions; historiography; n/a