Product Description: In colonial Africa, Christianity has often supported, sustained, and legitimated a violent process of governance. More recently, however, following decades of violence and oppression, churches and religious organizations have mobilized African publics against corrupt and abusive regimes and facilitated new forms of reconciliation and cooperation...read more

Product Description: The act of converting people to certain beliefs or values is highly controversial in today's postcolonial, multicultural world. Proselytization has been viewed by some as an aggressive act of political domination. 'Proselytization Revisited' offers a comprehensive overview of the many arguments for and against proselytization in different regions and contexts...read more

Product Description: This companion to Knoxville’s McClung Museum exhibition contains detailed annotations about the history and use of the ninety objects exhibited. Works from the southern and eastern parts of the continent, as well as the more familiar West African forms, emphasize the active role of art in African culture and life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of essays focuses particularly on new religions that have emerged in Nigeria in the period of diversification and change that has elapsed since the civil war of 1967-1970.