TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ilo,Stan Chu
TI  - Wealth, health, and hope in African Christian religion: the search for abundant life 
SN  - 9781498561273 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - BR1430 .W43 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington books
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan
KW  - Religion
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes index; Foreword; by Esther Acolatse --; Introduction: The search for abundant life in African Christian religion: historical reinterpretation of Christian mission in Africa; Stan Chu Ilo --; African Christian religions and the quest for health, healing and wholeness --; African Christian religion: its scope in the global context; Caleb O. Oladipo --; In quest of wholeness: African Christians in the new Christianity; David Tonghou Ngong --; Searching for healing in a miraculous stream: the fate of God's people in Africa; Stan Chu Ilo --; African pentecostalism and the ecology of sickness and evil --; Eradicating evil in the search for practices of hope in Africa: witchcraft beliefs and accusations in contemporary Ghanaian Christianity; Cyril G. K. Fayose --; Pentecostal and charismatic renewal as a socio-religious phenomenon for transformation in Africa; Clement Majawa --; Taking Africa out of the African: eco-community, the Christian heritage of empire and neo-pentecostalism in Africa; Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo --; Mission, money, wealth, and the search for abundant life --; The African peoples and money: yesterday, today and tomorrow; Nathanaël Soede --; The place of money in mission between Africa and the West: a personal narrative; Jim Harries --; Nigeria, Europe and Christian mission: models of economic collaboration in the 21st century; Felix Enegho --; The African church and the impact of contemporary fundraising and sustainability; Levi Nkwocha --; To recycle or not to recycle: an ethical question in Africa's relation with the West; Aloysius Ochasi, Peter Clark, and Michael Barkowski --; In the wake of overt religiosity: a critical and appreciative perspective on religion as a force for social transformation and development in African society; Obaji M. Agbiji and Ignatius Swart
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