Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel
In this volume, Barbara Cooper focuses on the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM). Her work is as much an ethnography of Christian conversion and worship as it is a close look into Muslim practices and attitudes about others. She is a marvelous storyteller and her work is laced with personal stories and vibrant details
1 online resource (xii, 462 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780253111920, 9780253222336, 9786612072796, 0253111927, 0253222338, 6612072792
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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
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