Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenneth R. Ross is Professor of Theology and Dean of Postgraduate Studies at Zomba Theological University in Malawi and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His most recent monograph is Mission, Race and Colonialism in Malawi: Alexander Hetherwick of Blantyre (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu is Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, is Baëta-Grau Professor of Contemporary African Christianity and Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology at the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Ghana. He has served as Visiting Scholar to Harvard University; Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota; the Overseas Center for Mission Studies, New Haven; and Asbury Seminary, in Kentucky. He is author of Contemporary Pentecostal Christianity: Interpretations from an African Context (2013) and African Charismatics: Current Developments within Independent Indigenous Pentecostalism in Ghana (2005). He is co-editor of Pentecostal Mission and Global Christianity (2014) and Babel is Everywhere! Migrant Readings from Africa, Europe and Asia (2013). Todd M. Johnson is the Eva B. and Paul E. Toms Distinguished Professor of Mission and Global Christianity and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA. He is also visiting Research Fellow at Boston University's Institute for Culture, Religion and World Affairs.

• ContentsSeries PrefaceVolume PrefaceContributorsIntroduction: Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa, J. Kwabena Asamoah-GyaduCountriesSouth Africa, Tinyiko MalulekeLesotho, Swaziland, Namibia and Botswana, James AmanzeMozambique, Isaias TitoceZimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, Hany LongweMadagascar, Solomon AndriatsimialomananarivoMauritius, Rodney CurpanenReunion, Jacqueline Andoche and Valérie AubourgSeychelles, Comoros, Mayotte and Saint Helena, Todd M. Johnson and Kenneth R. RossKenya and Tanzania, Wanjiru GitauRwanda and Burundi, Tharcisse GatwaUganda and South Sudan, Richard NnyombiEthiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti, Tibebe EsheteAngola, Sao Tome and Principe, Luciano ChianequeDemocratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, Jean-Gottfried MutomboCentral African Republic, Togo, Ivory Coast, Benin and Cameroon, Elias BongmbaNigeria, Elijah ObinnaGhana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Cephas N. OmenyoSenegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde, Simon K. DossouNiger, Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso and Mauritania, Emmanuel Foro 　Major Christian TraditionsAnglicans, James TengatengaIndependents, Nicta LubaaleOrthodox, Daniel Seifemichael and Ralph LeeProtestants, Setri NyomiRoman Catholics, Anthony EganEvangelicals, Tony BalcombPentecostals/Charismatics, Deji Isaac Ayegboyin and Michael OgunewuKey ThemesFaith and Culture, Mary GetuiWorship and Spirituality, John S. PobeeTheology, Francis Anekwe OborjiSocial and Political Context, Musa W. Dube and Malebogo KgalemangMission and Evangelism, Esther MomboGender, Isabel Apawo Phiri and Chammah KaundaReligious Freedom, Frans Veerman and Christof SauerInter-religious Relations, Evaristi CornelliThe Bible in African Christianity, Ukachukwu Chris ManusThe Anthropology of Evil, Afe AdogameMigration, Amélé EkuéConclusion　The Future of Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa, Mercy Amba OduyoyeAppendicesChristianity by CountryMethodology and Sources of Christian and Religious Affiliation, Todd M. Johnson and Gina A. Zurlo

Any seminary wishing to see students engage profitably with the dynamic forms of global Christianity today, and to listen and learn from the world church, should look to purchase this volume (and the other nine in the series!).