Nigeria's Christian revolution : the civil war revival and its Pentecostal progeny (1967-2006) /
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| Author / Creator: | Burgess, Richard (Richard Hugh) |
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| Imprint: | Carlisle, Cumbria, England : Paternoster : in partnership with Regnum, c2008. |
| Description: | xxii, 347 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Regnum studies in mission Regnum studies in mission. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7790058 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Maps
- Chapter 1. Constructing African Identities
- Defining Revival and African Pentecostalism
- Exploring Issues of Cause and Effect
- Globalisation, Modernisation and Local Identities
- Narratives of Conversion, Oral Histories and Local Theologies
- Method
- Chapter 2. The Nigerian Context: Sketching the Landscapes
- Political and Socio-Economic History, pre-2006
- The Igbo Primal Religious Landscape, pre-1967
- The Christian Missionary Enterprise, 1857-1960
- Missionary Ideologies from the Metropolitan Centre
- Local Initiatives from the Margins, 1914-1960
- Religious Culture in the 1960s
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. The Civil War Revival, 1967-73
- Expanding Religious Markets
- The Story of the Revival
- Global Flows and Local Identities
- Paths to Conversion
- Competing for Control of the Moral Landscape
- Contesting Boundaries and Reconstructing Collective Identities
- Missionary Impulses
- Pentecostal Infiltration
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Neo-Pentecostal Church Origins, 1970-83
- A History of Neo-Pentecostal Beginnings
- Predisposing Conditions
- Precipitating Factors
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Neo-Pentecostal Church Growth, 1972-2006
- Negotiating the Local and the Global
- Word and Worship
- Alternative Communities
- Faith, Health and Prosperity
- Missionary Communities
- Fragmented Communities
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Revivalists, Pentecostals and Public Zeal
- Scripture Union and the Politics of Biafra
- Revivalists, Pentecostals and Post-War Politics, 1970-79
- Political Corruption, Religious Politics and Democratisation, 1979-2006
- Social Welfare and Development Initiatives
- A Pentecostal Theology of Politics and Social Concern
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7. The Revival's Legacy and the Future of Nigerian Pentecostalism
- The Enduring Impact of the Civil War Revival
- The Pentecostalisation of the Mainline Churches
- The Future of Nigerian Pentecostalism
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
