Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel
This "fascinating historical account" of a Christian mission in Niger offers a personal and richly detailed look at religious institutions in the region (Religious Studies Review).
Barbara M. Cooper looks closely at the Sudan Interior Mission, an evangelical Christian mission that has taken a tenuous hold in a predominantly Hausa Muslim area on the southern fringe of Niger. Based on sustained fieldwork, personal interviews, and archival research, this vibrant, sensitive, compelling, and candid book gives a unique glimpse into an important dimension of religious life in Africa.
Cooper's involvement in a violent religious riot provides a useful backdrop for introducing other themes and concerns such as Bible translation, medical outreach, public preaching, tensions between English-speaking and French-speaking missionaries, and the Christian mission's changing views of Islam.
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Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel
This "fascinating historical account" of a Christian mission in Niger offers a personal and richly detailed look at religious institutions in the region (Religious Studies Review).
Barbara M. Cooper looks closely at the Sudan Interior Mission, an evangelical Christian mission that has taken a tenuous hold in a predominantly Hausa Muslim area on the southern fringe of Niger. Based on sustained fieldwork, personal interviews, and archival research, this vibrant, sensitive, compelling, and candid book gives a unique glimpse into an important dimension of religious life in Africa.
Cooper's involvement in a violent religious riot provides a useful backdrop for introducing other themes and concerns such as Bible translation, medical outreach, public preaching, tensions between English-speaking and French-speaking missionaries, and the Christian mission's changing views of Islam.
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Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel

Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel

by Barbara M. Cooper
Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel

Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel

by Barbara M. Cooper

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This "fascinating historical account" of a Christian mission in Niger offers a personal and richly detailed look at religious institutions in the region (Religious Studies Review).
Barbara M. Cooper looks closely at the Sudan Interior Mission, an evangelical Christian mission that has taken a tenuous hold in a predominantly Hausa Muslim area on the southern fringe of Niger. Based on sustained fieldwork, personal interviews, and archival research, this vibrant, sensitive, compelling, and candid book gives a unique glimpse into an important dimension of religious life in Africa.
Cooper's involvement in a violent religious riot provides a useful backdrop for introducing other themes and concerns such as Bible translation, medical outreach, public preaching, tensions between English-speaking and French-speaking missionaries, and the Christian mission's changing views of Islam.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780253111920
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/22/2021
Series: African Systems of Thought
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 472
File size: 4 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Barbara M. Cooper is Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is author of Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900–1989.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Acronyms

Introduction: Fundamental Differences
1. Anatomy of a Riot
2. Love and Violence
3. From "Satan's Masterpiece" to "The Social Problem of Islam"
4. A Hausa Spiritual Vernacular
5. African Agency and the Growth of the Church in the Maradi Region, 1927–1960
6. Disciplining the Christian: Defining Elderhood, Christian Marriage, and "God's Work," 1933–1955
7. "An Extremely Dangerous Suspect": From Vichy-Era Travails to Postwar Triumph
8. Impasses in Vernacular Education, 1945–1995
9. Handmaid to the Gospel: SIM's Medical Work in Niger, 1944–1975
10. The Tree of Life: Regenerating and Gendering the Garden after the Fall, 1975–2000
11. Ça bouge: Hausa Christian Practice in a Muslim Milieu
Epilogue: SIM's Successors and the Pentecostal Explosion
Glossary
Notes
Works Consulted
Index

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