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Book Reviews 288 ST U D IE S IN WO R L D CH R IST IA N IT Y responsible for the emergence of various âDiasporicâ Churches in the forms of the African Initiated Churches (AICs) and Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity. The nexus between colonial expansion and the nineteenthcentury Western missionary movement (as Anglican, Adventist, Baptist, Methodist and Catholic organisations) was explored from within diverse local contexts, and found to have brought transformations (positive and negative) to both African Christianity (as in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe) and the European spiritual landscape. In the four chapters that make up Part Two, discussions centred on issues of gender, which is vital for the understanding of African Christianity. Increased female leadership in some AICs and Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches both in Africa and Europe, as opposed to the male hegemony of missionary Christianity, was explored. However, certain European female ï¬gures, possessing incorrigibly intrepid personality proï¬les, sometimes as wives of missionaries or other categories, came to parts of Africa, became devoted friends of the natives and were dedicated crusaders for justice. The section ends with attention on the pandemic of HIV/AIDS and the need for a responsive African theology. Part Three consists
Studies in World Christianity – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Dec 1, 2009
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