Christian Churches and Nigeria's Political Economy of Oil and Conflict : Baptist and Pentecostal Perspectives
ISBN: 9781443867092
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Religion;

The received account on African evangelical Christianity regarding social witness in a section of Western scholarship is that it is anti-development and a-political. Such an account heavily draws from an instrumentalist and functionalist assessment of such Christianity without recourse to its emic perspective. Using the case-study method, this book presents an ethnographic examination of this functionalist reading by investigating, describing and analysing evangelical Christian theological an...


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