ISBN:
0814762123
,
0814762115
,
9780814762127
,
9780814762110
Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 352 S
,
24 cm
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Maxwell, William W. OUT OF AFRICA 2007
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in González, Alessandra L. African Immigrant Religions in America 2009
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Fenton, Dana [Rezension von: Olupona, Jacob K., African Immigrant Religions in America] 2007
DDC:
200.89/96073
Keywords:
African Americans Religion
;
African Americans Religion
;
Africa, Sub-Saharan Emigration and immigration
;
Religious aspects
;
Africa, Sub-Saharan Emigration and immigration
;
Religious aspects
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
USA
;
Kanada
;
Afrikaner
;
Religion
Abstract:
Historical and theoretical perspectives -- Reverse mission : faith, practice, and the immigrant journey -- Gender, ethnicity, and identity -- Civic engagement and political incorporation
Description / Table of Contents:
Communities of believers : exploring African immigrant religion in the United States /Jacob K. Olupona --African immigrant churches in the United States and the study of Black church history /David D. Daniels --The Andrew syndrome : models in understanding Nigerian diaspora /Ogbu M. Kalu --Non-Western Christianity in the Western world : African immigrant churches in the diaspora /Akintunde Akinade --Portable faith : the global mission of African initiated churches /Elias Bongmba --Gender, identity, and power in African immigrant Evangelical churches /Regina Gemignani --Gender and change in an African immigrant church : an anthropologist and a (former) prophetess reflect /Deidre Helen Crumbley and Gloria Malake Cline-Smythe --West African Muslims in America : when are Muslims not Muslims? /Linda Beck --African religious beliefs and practices in diaspora : an ethnographic observation of activities at an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian church in Los Angeles /Worku Nida --Transnationalism, religion, and the African diaspora in Canada : an examination of Ghanaians and Ghanaian churches /Wisdom J. Tettey --Singing the Lord's song in a foreign land : spirituality, communality, and identity in a Ghanaian immigrant congregation /Moses Biney --African immigrant churches and the new Christian Right /Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome --African Muslims in the United States : the Nigerian case /Yushau Sodiq --Conclusion /Jacob K. Olupona and Regina Gemignani.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Communities of believers : exploring African immigrant religion in the United States
,
African immigrant churches in the United States and the study of Black church history
,
The Andrew syndrome : models in understanding Nigerian diaspora
,
Non-Western Christianity in the Western world : African immigrant churches in the diaspora
,
Portable faith : the global mission of African initiated churches
,
Gender, identity, and power in African immigrant Evangelical churches
,
Gender and change in an African immigrant church : an anthropologist and a (former) prophetess reflect
,
West African Muslims in America : when are Muslims not Muslims?
,
African religious beliefs and practices in diaspora : an ethnographic observation of activities at an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian church in Los Angeles
,
Transnationalism, religion, and the African diaspora in Canada : an examination of Ghanaians and Ghanaian churches
,
Singing the Lord's song in a foreign land : spirituality, communality, and identity in a Ghanaian immigrant congregation
,
African immigrant churches and the new Christian Right
,
African Muslims in the United States : the Nigerian case
,
Conclusion
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