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African Migrant Christians Changing the Landscape of Christianity in the West: Reading the Signs of the Times
Gone are the days when one could clearly define the contours of western Christianity. Such a description must necessarily account for the influences...
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Change and Continuity in AIC Church Life and Their Scholarship: A Question of Maturation?
During the twentieth century the acronym AIC became a well-known and widely accepted designation for a large swath of African Christianity perceived...
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New World Ethiopianism and the Evangelization of Africa
The concept of Ethiopianism incorporated various strategies for African Americans to promote transformation on the African continent. These...
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Decolonizing Familial Metaphors for Nationhood: Reflective Nostalgia, Christology, and la Gran Familia Puerto Riqueña
This chapter examines “La gran familia puertorriqueña” and ecclesial metaphors for the church as a diaspora kinship network. “La gran familia” has...
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Katie Geneva Cannon’s Cross-Cultural and Bridge-Building Womanist Ethics
The central focus of this chapter is on the concept of the human person as deserving dignity and respect, a theological claim upon which Katie Geneva...
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The Writings and Legacy of John Mbiti
This chapter discusses the enduring legacy of John Mbiti, one of Africa’s leading theologians in the decades between 1960 and 2020. First, it offers...
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Intimate Encounters at the Unhomely Home: Reading Morrison’s Home and the Gospel of John’s Homecoming Story
This essay delineates how transnational feminist biblical hermeneutics can intervene in the intimate and often unsettling encounter between African...
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The Writings and Influence of Edward W. Blyden
This chapter explores the significance and legacy of the contributions made by Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912), to the history and historiography of...
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Catholic Church Growth in Independent Africa
This chapter analyzes the factors that shaped the remarkable quantitative and qualitative growth of the Roman Catholic church in postcolonial Africa....
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Abolitionism and the Evangelization of Africa
The abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and the subsequent long drawn-out global struggle to emancipate the enslaved were the result of...
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African Islamic Influences in Selected African-American Literary Writings
This chapter examines Africanisms and African Islamic influences or parallels in Zora Neal Hurston’sHurston, Zora Neal Mules and Men (1935), James...
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The Diasporic Body of Jesus: A Feminist Ethic of Diasporas
With a deep appreciation of transnational feminist scholars’ critical scholarship on the diaspora, this chapter reflects on a liberative diasporic...
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Garveyism and Christianity in Colonial Africa
Garveyism beyond the US must be described as a wide pluriform movement. The reception of Garvey’s ideals in Africa went in multiple directions,...
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Continental Protestant Missions and the Evangelization of Africa (1800–1880)
This chapter is concerned with religious encounters between Africans and continental European Protestants in the eighty years between the abolition...
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Diaspora and Identity
In this chapter, central theories and concepts used in the study, such as religious-transnationalism and ethnicity are elaborated. The first section...
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The Writings and Legacy of Ogbu Kalu
Adequate educative literature that gives insight into the evolutionary process of Christianity in Africa has been lacking, and the fact that scholars...
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Unveiling Hidden Narratives: Musa Dube’s Postcolonial Feminist Lens on Biblical Studies
Musa Dube’s theological endeavors contribute to and challenge how African Biblical Studies are done. This chapter gives readers a flavor of her...
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Anti-black Racism
Recent data shows that in the United States predominately African-American communities were disproportionately affected by the spread of the novel...
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From Horror to Heroes: Mythologies of Graphic Voodoo in Comics
This essay examines the mythemes of Voodoo in comics from the early twentieth century to the present day. Unlike Vodun, an indigenous tradition of...
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From the Bairros to North America: Reverse Mission Trajectories
This chapter considers how the reverse mission phenomenon contributes to the shape of Pentecostalism in North America. Now found throughout North...