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Author Cooper, Barbara MacGowan.

Title Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel / Barbara M. Cooper
Published Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 462 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series African systems of thought
African systems of thought.
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 -- Ca̧ bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu -- Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion
Summary In this volume, Barbara Cooper focuses on the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM). Her work is as much an ethnography of Christian conversion and worship as it is a close look into Muslim practices and attitudes about others. She is a marvelous storyteller and her work is laced with personal stories and vibrant details
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-453) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Sudan Interior Mission.
SIM (Organization)
SUBJECT SIM (Organization) fast
Sudan Interior Mission fast
Subject Missions -- Niger
Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
Christianity -- Niger
Islam -- Niger
Christianity.
Islam.
Christianity
Islam
Religious Missions
Christianity.
Islam.
RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Christianity
Interfaith relations
Islam
Missions
Missionarissen.
SUBJECT Niger
Subject Niger
Sudan.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253111920
0253111927
0253222338
9780253222336
9786612072796
6612072792