A History of African Christianity 1950-1975

by Adrian Hastings

Book Overview

The churches in Africa probably constitute the most important growth area for Christianity in the second half of the twentieth century. From being a number of rather tightly controlled 'mission fields' zealously guarded by the great missionary societies, Catholic and Protestant, they have emerged across the last decades in bewildering variety to selfhood, a membership of close on a hundred million adherents and an influential role both within their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521293979
• ISBN13: 9780521293976
• Release Date: May 1979
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"