East African Expressions of Christianity

"All the studies in this valuable volume are well worth reading. [...] They provide a series of important insights into the challenges and opportunities confronting African Christians as they seek guidance from their faith and proclaim its global relevance for the twenty-first century." BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES

"[T]he book offers illuminating perspectives on the extraordinary drama which has unfolded as different Christian theological concepts flowed across cultural and linguistic divides to acquire new meanings in the minds of African converts (Spear p.6). Those concerned to take account of this important dimension of African life will not regret ordering a copy." Kenneth R. Ross, THE JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES

"...an important contribution to the field. Its emphasis on the examination of Christianity as a religious phenomenon is an important one, and one increasingly recognized as of central significance for an understanding of Africa's history and society." Kevin Ward, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds

"... superb collection of essays providing a finely focused picture of Christianity in East Africa." D. Jacobson, CHOICE

"This is a wonderful book. It opens up a whole field of inquiry formerly closed because Africanists, searching for authentic African voices, have seen Christianity and Christians as alien to the African continent..." Jan Bender Shetler, AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW

"This is an important and welcome book, one of the growing number in which scholars are taking African Christianity as seriously as Christian Africans do themselves ...This sense of the moral and social inextricability of Christianity from modern African life is a fitting conclusion to carry away from one's reading of this fascinating and editorially well-disciplined book." John Lonsdale, AFRICA