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By Adrian Hastings

ISBN-10: 0198263996

ISBN-13: 9780198263999

ISBN-10: 0585162271

ISBN-13: 9780585162270

Masking 5 centuries--from the increase of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church within the fifteenth century and the early Portuguese missionaries all the way through to the Church and its key function in Africa today--this significant new quantity is the 1st entire historical past of the Christian Church in Africa. Written by way of a number one authority on Church historical past who has spent a long time in Africa, it seems to be in any respect elements of Christianity in Africa, together with its courting to standard values and customs, politics, and the related upward push of Islam in Africa through the interval.

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Christian Nubia 614 3. The Kingdom of Kongo, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries 615 4. Islam in West Africa and the Nineteenth-Century Fulani Empires 616 5. The West Africa Coast in the Late Nineteenth Century 617 6. Protestant Missions in South and East Africa Established by 1885 618 7. The Principal Catholic Missionary Societies at Work in Africa between 1850 and 1890 619 8. Buganda and Its Neighbours 620 Bibliography 621 Index 686 Page xi A NOTE ON NAMES I have tried to follow as uncomplicated an approach to names as I could, but any approach is bound to be somewhat arbitrary.

Nubia 67 3. The Kongo, Warri, Mutapa, and the Portuguese 71 The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 71 i. Portugal Overseas 71 ii. Kongo and Its Initial Evangelization 73 iii. Benin and Mutapa 77 iv. Kongolese Catholicism under Afonso I and His Immediate Successors 79 The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 87 v. The Diocese of São Salvador and the Jesuits 87 vi. The Mission of the Capuchins 94 vii. The Battle of Ambuila, Kimpa Vita, and the Antonian Movement 102 viii. The Kongo Church in the Eighteenth Century 109 ix.

Galawdewos, the Jesuits, and Enbaqom 139 iv. Paez and Susenyos 148 v. Mendes and Fasiladas 154 vi. The Eighteenth Century 162 Part II. 17801890: From the Anti-Slavery to Total Subjugation 5. Equiano to Ntsikana: From the 1780s to the 1820s 173 i. London, Africa, and Protestantism 173 ii. West African Protestant Beginnings and the Foundation of Freetown 177 iii. The Advance of Islam 188 iv. Kongo Christianity under Garcia V 194 v. South Africa: Genadendal, Bethelsdorp, and Kuruman 197 vi. The Mission Village: A Discussion 209 vii.

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