Cooper, Barbara MacGowan.

Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel [electronic resource] / Barbara M. Cooper. - Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2006. - xii, 462 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - African systems of thought . - African systems of thought. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-453) and index.

Introduction: fundamental differences -- Anatomy of a riot -- Love a nd violence -- From "Satan's masterpiece" to "the social problem of Isl am" -- A Hausa spiritual vernacular -- African agency and the growth of the church in the Maradi Region, 1927-1960 -- Disciplining the Christi an : defining elderhood, Christian marriage, and "God's work," 1933-195 5 -- "An extremely dangerous suspect" : from Vichy-era travails to post war triumph -- Impasses in vernacular education, 1945-1995 -- Handmaid to the gospel : SIM's medical work in Niger, 1944-1975 -- The tree of l ife : regenerating and gendering the garden after the fall, 1975-2000 - - Ça bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu -- Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion.


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Sudan Interior Mission.
SIM (Organization)


Missions-- Niger.
Christianity and other religions-- Islam.
Islam-- Relations-- Christianity.
Christianity-- Niger.
Islam-- Niger.