How God Became African: African Spirituality and Western Secular Thought

by Gerrie Ter Haar

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812241738
• ISBN13: 9780812241730
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"