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- catalog abstract ""Christianity provided the constitutive identity of historic Ethiopia. From the sixteenth century, and increasingly from the nineteenth, it entered decisively into the life and culture of an increasing number of other African peoples. In the course of the twentieth century, African Christians have become a major part of the world Church, and arguably modern African history as a whole is not intelligible without its powerful Christian element. Yet despite the great advance in African historiography over the last forty years, this is the first major volume to consider the historical development and character of the Christian Church in Africa as a whole, linking together Ethiopian Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and the numerous 'Independent' churches of modern times. The book focuses throughout on the role of conversion, the shaping of Church life and its relationship to traditional values, and the impact of political power. Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comparable development of Islam in Africa."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b6493819.
- catalog coverage "Africa Church history.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""Christianity provided the constitutive identity of historic Ethiopia. From the sixteenth century, and increasingly from the nineteenth, it entered decisively into the life and culture of an increasing number of other African peoples. In the course of the twentieth century, African Christians have become a major part of the world Church, and arguably modern African history as a whole is not intelligible without its powerful Christian element. Yet despite the great advance in African historiography over the last forty years, this is the first major volume to consider the historical development and character of the Christian Church in Africa as a whole, linking together Ethiopian Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and the numerous 'Independent' churches of modern times. The book focuses throughout on the role of conversion, the shaping of Church life and its relationship to traditional values, and the impact of political power. Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comparable development of Islam in Africa."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p.[621]-685) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. I. 1450-1780 : a medieval environment. The Ethiopian church in the age of Zara Ya'iqob ; Africa in 1500 and its Christian past ; The Kongo, Warri, Mutapa, and the Portuguese ; Riches to rags : Ethiopia 1500-1800 -- pt. II. 1780-1890 : from the anti-slavery to total subjugation. Equiano to Ntsikana : from the 1780s to the 1820s ; The lion revived : Ethiopia in the nineteenth century ; The Victorian missionary ; Kings, marriage, ancestors, and God ; Christian life in the age of Bishop Crowther -- pt. III. 1890-1960 : the Christianizing of half a continent. A variety of scrambles : 1890-1920 ; From Agbebi to Diangienda : independency and prophetism ; Church, school, and state in the age of Bishop Kiwanuka.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 706 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0198263996 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0198269218 :".
- catalog isPartOf "Oxford history of the Christian Church".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Africa Church history.".
- catalog spatial "Africa".
- catalog spatial "Africa.".
- catalog subject "276 20".
- catalog subject "BR1360 .H364 1994".
- catalog subject "Christianity Africa History.".
- catalog subject "Christianity Africa.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and culture.".
- catalog subject "Christians, Black Africa History.".
- catalog subject "Church and state Africa.".
- catalog subject "Missions Africa History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. 1450-1780 : a medieval environment. The Ethiopian church in the age of Zara Ya'iqob ; Africa in 1500 and its Christian past ; The Kongo, Warri, Mutapa, and the Portuguese ; Riches to rags : Ethiopia 1500-1800 -- pt. II. 1780-1890 : from the anti-slavery to total subjugation. Equiano to Ntsikana : from the 1780s to the 1820s ; The lion revived : Ethiopia in the nineteenth century ; The Victorian missionary ; Kings, marriage, ancestors, and God ; Christian life in the age of Bishop Crowther -- pt. III. 1890-1960 : the Christianizing of half a continent. A variety of scrambles : 1890-1920 ; From Agbebi to Diangienda : independency and prophetism ; Church, school, and state in the age of Bishop Kiwanuka.".
- catalog title "The Church in Africa : 1450-1950 / Adrian Hastings.".
- catalog type "Church history. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".