Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cooper, Barbara MacGowan
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2006]
Subjects:	Islam > Niger. Christianity > Niger. Islam > Relations > Christianity. Christianity and other religions > Islam. Missions > Niger. SIM (Organization) Sudan Interior Mission. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: fundamental differences
Anatomy of a riot
Love and violence
From "Satan's masterpiece" to "the social problem of Islam"
A Hausa spiritual vernacular
African agency and the growth of the church in the Maradi Region, 1927-1960
Disciplining the Christian : defining elderhood, Christian marriage, and "God's work," 1933-1955
"An extremely dangerous suspect" : from Vichy-era travails to postwar triumph
Impasses in vernacular education, 1945-1995
Handmaid to the gospel : SIM's medical work in Niger, 1944-1975
The tree of life : regenerating and gendering the garden after the fall, 1975-2000
Ca̧ bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu
Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion.