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West Africa

Duffuor and Harris, “Politics as a Vocation”

Duffuor, Amy and Alana Harris. 2013. Politics as a Vocation: Prayer, Civic Engagement, and the Gendered Re-Enchantment of the City. …

December 20, 2013 ndca-admin

Stornig, “Sisters Crossing Boundaries”

Stornig, Katharina.  2013.  Sisters Crossing Boundaries: German Missionary Nuns in Colonial Togo and New Guinea, 1897–1960.  Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. …

October 8, 2013 ndca-admin

Mohr, “Enchanted Calvinism”

Mohr, Adam. 2013. Enchanted Calvinism: Labor Migration, Afflicting Spirits, and Christian Therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. Rochester: University …

October 2, 2013 ndca-admin

Daswani, “On Christianity and Ethics”

Daswani, Girish. 2013. On Christianity and Ethics: Rupture as ethical practice in Ghanian Pentecostalism. American Ethnologist 40(3):467-479. Abstract: Rupture, a …

August 13, 2013 ndca-admin

Cinnamon, “American Presbyterian Missionaries”

Cinnamon, John M. 2013. American Presbyterian Missionaries, Enslavement, and Anti-Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Gabon. Social Sciences and Missions 26(1): 93-122. Abstract: …

July 24, 2013 ndca-admin

Gifford, Paul. 2004. Ghana’s New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy

Reviewed by Joel Robbins (Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego). Paul Gifford is one of the most knowledgeable and prolific scholars of Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa.  He has written both surveys on general topics, such as the public role of Christian churches in Africa, and monographs focused on specific countries

May 13, 2013 ndca-admin

Leichtman, “From the Cross”

Leichtman, Mara A. 2013. From the Cross (and Crescent) to the Cedar and Back Again: Transnational religion and politics among …

March 4, 2013 ndca-admin

Drønen, “Pentecostalism, Globalisation, and Islam”

Drønen, Tomas Sundnes.  2013.  Pentecostalism, Globalisation, and Islam in Northern Cameroon: Megachurches in the Making?  Leiden: Brill. Publisher’s Description: Pentecostalism …

February 4, 2013 ndca-admin

Ajibade “‘Lady No Be So'”

Ajibade, Babson.  2012. ‘Lady no be so’: the image of women in contemporary church posters in Nigeria.  Visual Studies: 27(3): …

October 30, 2012 ndca-admin

Thomson, “Christianity, Islam, and ‘The Religion of Pouring’: Non-linear Conversion in a Gambia/Casamance Borderland”

Thomson, Steven (2012) “Christianity, Islam, and ‘The Religion of Pouring’: Non-linear Conversion in a Gambia/Casamance Borderland.” Journal of Religion in Africa …

October 10, 2012 ndca-admin

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Sacred Heart - Naomi Haynes
Man painting, Dolls, Candles, Monastery Artabyunk - Hillary Kaell
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