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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787958303321

Autore

Osuigwe Nkem Emerald

Titolo

Christian churches and Nigeria's political economy of oil and conflict : baptist and pentecostal perspectives / / by Nkem Emerald Osuigwe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-6709-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Disciplina

276.69

Soggetti

Christianity - Nigeria

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES; FOREWORD; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

The received account on African evangelical Christianity regarding social witness in a section of Western scholarship is that it is anti-development and a-political. Such an account heavily draws from an instrumentalist and functionalist assessment of such Christianity without recourse to its emic perspective. Using the case-study method, this book presents an ethnographic examination of this functionalist reading by investigating, describing and analysing evangelical Christian theological an...