Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918–1929
by Adam Mohr
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481318655
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Hardcover
Mohr’s findings compel scholars to rethink the historical relationship of African indigenous churches to Pentecostalism in West Africa in addition to the historical relationship between South African Zionism and Nigerian Aladura.
From these ingredients, and drawing on insights from postcolonial studies, Joshua reveals how a "subalternsensibility and vision from the margins of Indian society challenged both the colonial overlords and the mission-church hierarchs to create a Christianity made in India.
The longitudinal and comparative analysis shows how these Pentecostal approaches to orality, kinship, and integrated spirituality inform Kenyans' reimagination of Christianity.
By foregrounding the sacrificial idiom shared by locals, missionaries, and native thinkers, Healing and Power in Ghana presents a new model of scholarship for both West African history and world Christianity.
Civil War, Migration, and the Rise of Dinka Anglicanism
by Jesse A. Zink
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481308229
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2018
Format: Hardcover
Jesse Zink has written a must-read for all interested in the ongoing crises in Africa and, in particular, the vexed relationship between violence and religion.
This exploration of new Christian communities created by the confluences and divergences between American evangelical and Indian bhakti religious traditions reveals the birth and early growth of one of the many incarnations of Christianity.
From the Blood of the Martyrs to the Baptism of the Spirit
by Timothy H. Wadkins
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481307123
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2017
Format: Hardcover
The outcome is a comprehensive and detailed picture of El Salvador’s religious renaissance against the backdrop of El Salvador’s fitful path toward modernization and democratization.
Tuskegee, Colonialism, and the Shaping of African Industrial Education
by Andrew E. Barnes
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481303927
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: January 2017
Format: Hardcover
Barnes' study documents how African Christians sought to maintain indigenous identity and agency in the face of colonial domination by the state and even the European Christian missions of the church.
Protestant Encounters with Korean Religions, 1876-1915
by Sung-Deuk Oak
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781602585768
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2015
Format: Paperback
The Making of Korean Christianity was recognized by theInternational Bulletin of Missionary Research as one of the top Fifteen Outstanding Books of 2013 for Mission Studies.
The History and Transformation of a Free Church Tradition
by Malkhaz Songulashvili
Price: $89.99
ISBN: 9781481301107
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2015
Format: Hardcover
Evangelical Christian Baptists of Georgia allows readers to peer through the lens of intercultural studies to see the powerful relationships among politics, religion, and culture in the formation of Georgian Baptists, and their blending of Orthodox tradition into Baptist life to craft a unique ecclesiology, liturgy, and aesthetics.
In a distinctly Chinese voice, Yang presents the legacy of Western missionaries in a new light, contributing greatly to now vigorous Sino-Christian theology.
Christianity and Political Culture in Contemporary Hong Kong
by Lida V. Nedilsky
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481300322
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: June 2014
Format: Hardcover
From this intimate, firsthand vantage point, Converts to Civil Society reveals that people’s independent movements not only invigorate and shape religious community but enliven a wider public life.
