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Religious innovation in Africa : collected essays on new religious movements / Harold W. Turner.

Title
Religious innovation in Africa : collected essays on new religious movements / Harold W. Turner.
Author
Turner, Harold W.
Publication
Boston : G. K. Hall, c1979.

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x, 354 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
Africa > Religion
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
INTRODUCTORY AND GENERAL -- New Religious Movements in Primal Societies -- African Prophet Movements -- A New Field in the History of Religions -- METHODOLOGICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL -- Problems in the Study of African Independent Churches -- The Approach to Africa's Religious Movements -- A Methodology for Modern African Religious Movements -- A Typology for African Religious Movements -- The Study of New Religious Movements in Africa, 1968-1975 -- HISTORICAL -- Pentecostal Movements in Nigeria -- The Late Sir Isaac Akinyele, Olubadan of Ibadan -- Prophets and Politics: A Nigerian Test-Case -- African Religious Movements and Roman Catholicism -- RELIGIOUS CASE STUDIES -- Searching and Syncretism: A West African Documentation -- Pagan Features in West African Independent Churches -- Patterns of Ministry and Structure Within Independent Churches in Post-Colonial Africa -- The Spirituality of Independent African Churches -- THEOLOGICAL AND LITURGICAL -- The Contribution of Studies on Religion in Africa to Western Religious Studies -- Monogamy: A Mark of the Church? -- A Theology of Water, in Introduction to J. Ade Aina's Present Day Prophets -- Profile Through Preaching: The Use of Scripture as the Criterion of a Church -- The Litany of an Independent West African Church -- MISSIOLOGICAL -- A Further Dimension for Missions: New Religious Movements in the Primal Societies -- The Hidden Power of the Whites: The Secret Religion Withheld from the Primal Peoples -- Dynamic Religion in Africa -- SOCIO-CULTURAL -- The Place of Independent Religious Movements in the Modernization of Africa -- African Independent Churches and Education -- Study Centre for New Religious Movements: A Contribution to Inner Cultural Understanding and Third World Development -- ADDENDUM -- Other Kindred Publications -- INDICES -- General Index -- Movements: Their Own Associations and Centres -- Individuals in New Movements.
ISBN
0816183031
LCCN
^^^78010215^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library