Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel

Cooper, Barbara MacGowan.

Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel [electronic resource] / Barbara M. Cooper. - Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2006. - xii, 462 p. : ill., maps. - African systems of thought . - African systems of thought. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-453) and index.

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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Sudan Interior Mission.
SIM (Organization)


Missions--Niger.
Christianity and other religions--Islam.
Islam--Relations--Christianity.
Christianity--Niger.
Islam--Niger.


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