Calvin College

The Changing Face of Christianity

In 1900 there were about 9 million Christians in all of Africa. By the year 2000 that number had grown to 380 million. Calvin College provost and professor of history Joel Carpenter says that Africa ...
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Christianity in Africa and the African diaspora : the appropriation of a scattered heritage / edited by Afe Adogame, Roswith Gerloff, Klaus Hock

Political or spiritual partition : the impact of the 1884/85 Berlin Conference on Christian missions in Africa / Olayemi Akinwumi -- Ecclesiastical cartography and the invisible continent / Jonathan J ...
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Burundi prepares to mark 125 years of Christianity

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – Burundi is using the 125 th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the African nation as a jumping off point to renew the faith of the population. In an interview with Fides ...
The Conversation

Christianity is changing in South Africa as pentecostal and indigenous churches grow – what’s behind the trend

Professor of Public Theology in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Theology, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Studies ...
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Cameroon priest argues African Traditional Religion is ‘seed’ of Christianity

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A Cameroonian priest and intellectual has published a ground-breaking book that could potentially change the way African Traditional Religion is perceived by the Catholic Church.
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Religion as a Security Threat: Case Studies of Extremist Christian Movements in Africa

Religious extremism presents an ideological perspective found in most major religions and is currently associated with various forms of religiously motivated acts of violence. A conceptual framework ...