Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Language
Introduction
- Charisma – Institution
- Charisma/Spirit/Orality – Institution/Letter/Literacy
- African Literate Religion
- ‘Spirit’ and ‘Letter’ in African Christianity
- Examining Literacy Practices
- The Fieldwork
- Outline of the Book
PART I: HISTORIES AND ETHNOGRAPHIES
Chapter 1. Colonial Literacies
- Mission, School and Printing Press
- Steps towards Secularization
- Counterforce in Writing
- What is a School?
- Resistance and Non-religious Literacies
- Colonial Bureaucracy
- Evangelists as Administrators
Chapter 2. Passages, Configurations, Traces
- At the Edge of the Road
- On the Road
- Early Evangelisations
- Christianity in the 1990s
- Religious Intersections
Chapter 3. Schooled Literacy, Schooled Religion
PART II: LITERATE RELIGION
- Enrolment in School
- After the Ringing of the Bell
- Recitations of Syllabi
- Experiences with Mission Schools
- Contemporary Religious Education
Chapter 4. Literate Cultures in a Material World
- The Bible as an Everyday Object
- Literacy in Times of Paper Shortage
- Getting Hold of Christian Publications
- Publications as Property
Chapter 5. Indices to the Scriptural
- Bible Talks
- Programmatic Visibility
- References to the Book
Chapter 6. The Fringes of Christianity
- Blurrings and Criteria
- Turning Letters Upside Down
Chapter 7. Thoughts about ‘Religions of the Book’
- Book People
- Scriptural Inerrancy and Authority
- Canonization and the Bridging of Realms
PART III: WAYS OF READING
Chapter 8. Texts, Readers, Spirit
- Bibles, Versions, Origins
- Pamphlets and Eclecticism
- Selections and Combinations
- Private Readings, Implicit Influences
- Bible Studies
Chapter 9. Evanescence and the Necessity of Intermediation
- The Impossibility of Storing the Holy Spirit
- Objects, Bodies and Spiritual Evanescence
Chapter 10. Setting Texts in Motion
- Deciphering and Preaching
- Sediments of the Spirit
Chapter 11. Missions in Writing
- Literacy Networking
- The Jehovah’s Witnesses: Questions and Answers
- The New Apostolic Church: Mediation via Circulars
- Supplements as ‘Obligatory Passage Points’
- Enablement through Denominational Publications
Chapter 12. Enablements to Literacy
- Rumination and Scholarship
- Scripture and Enablement
- Enabling Supplements
PART IV: BUREAUCRACY IN THE PENTECOSTAL-CHARISMATIC MODE
Chapter 13. Offices and the Dispersion of Charisma
- Bureaucracy as Social Practice
- Organizational Formalization as a Founding Myth
- Dispersing Charisma, Allocating Offices
- Charisma, Hierarchies, Variations
- Ignorance and Mutual Recognition
Chapter 14. Positions of Writers, Positions in Writings
- Certifications of Authority
- God’s Secretaries
- Identifications and Registries
- Fixing Polyvalent Rites of Passage
- Portrayals of the Momentary
Chapter 15. Outlines for the Future, Documents of the Immediate
- Agendas as Revelations
- Reports of the Unpredictable
- Agendas, Reports, and the Holy Spirit
- Re-spiritualizing Bureaucracy
Chapter 16. Bureaucracy In-Between
- Flows and Facades
- African Christianity and the State
- Formalizing Social Relations
- Imagining the State
- Legacies and Isomorphism
- Presentations and Concealments
- Bureaucracy as Pentecostal-charismatic Empowerment
Chapter 17. Epilogue
Bibliography Index