Title:	Catholic Pentecostalism and the Paradoxes of Africanization
Authors:	Paul Gifford Prof Wendy James Ludovic, Lado
Keywords:	Ephphata (Organization
Issue Date:	2009
Publisher:	Brill
Description:	Studies of new Christian movements in colonial and postcolonial Africa have mostly focused on ‘African Independent Churches’ (Sundkler 1948; Peel 1968; Martin 1975; Van Binsbergen 1981; Fernandez 1982; Comaroff 1985; Ranger 1986; Spear and Kimambo 1999) and independent Pentecostalism, including the new wave of Charismatic churches (Ojo 1988, Maxwell 1998; Corten and Marshall-Fratani 2001; Gifford 2004; Anderson 2004). But far less attention has been given to new religious movements within mission churches in Africa. This neglect is partly due to the fact that anthropologists have tended to view ‘traditional religions’ and ‘African Independent Churches’ as much more African (Ranger 1987: 31) than, for example, African Catholicism. Indeed in the anthropological study of Charismatic Christianity in Africa, the topic of its domestication in mission churches has been largely neglected. The most notable exceptions that I am aware of are the works of Johannes Fabian (1971), Ranger (1972), Ter Haar (1992), and Birgit Meyer (1994; 1999).
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9026
ISBN:	978-90-04-16898-5
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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