| Description |
xii, 462 p. : ill., maps. |
| Series |
African systems of thought |
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African systems of thought.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-453) and index. |
| 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 -- Ca bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu -- Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Sudan Interior Mission.
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SIM (Organization)
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Missions -- Niger.
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Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
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Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Christianity -- Niger.
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Islam -- Niger.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0253347394 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780253347398 |
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