1799 Church Missionary Society founded. 1804 British and Foreign Bible Society founded. 1840s Roman Catholic missionary societies The Congregation of the Holy Ghost and the White Fathers founded. 1886 ...
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 ...
This volume brings together seven empirically grounded contributions by African social scientists of different disciplinary backgrounds. The authors explore the social impact of religious innovation ...
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 ...
Part I. Selected historical perspectives. Christianity in North Africa / Elias Kifon Bongmba -- Christianity in Egypt: the Coptic Church / Youhanna Nessim Youssef -- Early Christian discourses and ...
The United States is a Christian-majority nation -- but the majority here is dwindling, with only 64% of Americans now identifying as Christian, according to Pew Research Center data. Shutterstock A ...
Christianity in Africa entered a new phase last week: for the first time in the two centuries that missionaries have been sowing the Gospel seed among the continent’s jungles, veldts and hills, the ...
The History of Christianity (HC) area studies past theological reflection on the faith and practice of the Church, especially in early and medieval Christianity. The HC area strives to appreciate ...