How God Became African: African Spirituality and Western Secular Thought

Through the efforts of Western missionaries and home—grown churches and evangelists, Christianity has taken root in Africa with astonishing speed, to the point that Africa is now considered one of the heartlands of world Christianity. In a surprising reversal of the nineteenth—century missionary tradition, Africa no longer merely receives missionaries but is also the source of evangelization as African—influenced Christianity spreads around the new African diaspora. While Africans have whol...