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Christianity provided the constitutive identity of historic Ethiopia. From the sixteenth century, and increasingly from the nineteenth, it entered decisively into the life and culture of an increasing number of other African peoples. In the course of the twentieth century, African Christians have become a major part of the world Church, and arguably modern African history as a whole is not intelligible without its powerful Christian element.
Yet despite the great advance in African historiography over the last forty years, this is the first major volume to consider the historical development and character of the Christian Church in Africa as a whole, linking together Ethiopian Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and the numerous 'Independent' churches of modern times. The book focuses throughout on the role of conversion, the shaping of Church life and its relationship to traditional values, and the impact of political power.
Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comparable development of Islam in Africa.
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Missions, Church history, Church and state, Christianity and culture, History, Christianity, Chrétiens, Christendom, Christianisme et civilisation, Histoire, Histoire religieuse, Christianisme, Église et État, Inculturation, Black Christians, Missions, africa, Christians, africa, Church and state, africaPlaces
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The Church in Africa: 1450-1950
1994, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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0198269218 9780198269212
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [621]-685) and index.
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