Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-340) and index.
Contents:
Constructing African identities -- Defining revival and African Pentecostalism -- Exploring issues of cause and effect -- Globalisation, modernisation and local identities -- Narratives of conversion, oral histories and local theologies -- Method -- The Nigerian context: sketching the landscapes -- Political and socio-economic history, pre-2006 -- The Igbo primal religious landscape, pre-1967 -- The Christian missionary enterprise, 1857-1960 -- Missionary ideologies from the metropolitan centre -- Local initiatives from the margins, 1914-1960 -- Religious culture in the 1960s -- Conclusion -- The civil war revival, 1967-73 -- Expanding religious markets -- The story of the revival -- Global flows and local identities -- Paths to conversion -- Competing for control of the moral landscape -- Contesting boundaries and reconstructing collective identities -- Missionary impulses -- Pentecostal infiltration -- Conclusion -- Neo-Pentecostal church origins, 1970-83 -- A history of neo-Pentecostal beginnings -- Predisposing conditions -- Precipitating factors -- Conclusion -- Neo-Pentecostal church growth, 1972-2006 -- Negotiating the local and the global -- Word and worship -- Alternative communities -- Faith, health and prosperity -- Missionary communities -- Fragmented communities -- Conclusion -- Revivalists, Pentecostals and public zeal -- Scripture union and the politics of Biafra -- Revivalists, Pentecostals and post-war politics, 1970-79 -- Political corruption, religious politics and democratisation, 1979-2006 -- Social welfare and development initiatives -- A Pentecostal theology of politics and social concern -- Conclusion -- The revival's legacy and the future of Nigerian Pentecostalism -- The enduring impact of the civil war revival -- The Pentecostalisation of the mainline churches -- The future of Nigerian Pentecostalism.
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