Religious Conversion in Africa

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Africa; Africana religions; Ahmadiyya; Anthony Obinna; anthropology of Christianity; anti-globalism; Burkina Faso; conversion; Ethiopian Orthodox Church; faith-based NGO; France; Ghana; globalism; hagiography; historiography; history; Jamaica; linearity; livity; medieval Christianity; missionaries; modernity; Mormonism; Mozambique; n/a; networks; Orthodox Christianity; Pan-African; Pentecostal/charismatic missionization; post-coloniality; Rastafari; reconversion; religiosity; religious conversion; representation; ritualism; Roman Catholicism; social engagement; southeastern Nigeria; spiritual warfare; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; trodding the path; Uganda; women
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (126 p.)
• ISBN: 9783039430345; 9783039430352; books978-3-03943-035-2
• Access: Open Access

This collection brings together a diverse range of scholars, including historians of pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary Africa, along with anthropologists, who develop fresh arguments and reassessments of religious, cultural, and social change pertaining to Africa. The result is a fascinating array of research that offers critical, creative, and constructive analyses of religious change on the African continent, from the medieval period to the present.