Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-271) and index.
Christian encounter with Islam and indigenous religions. Christianity and Nigerian indigenous culture / Jude C. Aguwa -- "Making favorable impressions" : Bishop Crowther's C.M.S. Niger Mission in jihadist Nupe Emirate, 1859-1879 / F.J. Kolapo -- Bishop Crowther and Archdeacon Crowther : inter-generational challenge and opportunity in the African Christian encounter / Jehu J. Hanciles -- Missionary enterprise and sociocultural change in Igboland, Southeastern Nigeria : realities, myths, and continuities, 1900-1960 / Raphael Chijioke Njoku -- American missionaries and educational development in colonial Nigeria / Michael M. Ogbeidi -- Religion and politics. Islam and politics in Nigeria : historical perspectives / Chima J. Korieh -- Politicization of religion and religionization of politics in Nigeria / Afe Adogame -- Economy, politics, and the theological enterprise in Nigeria / Chukwudi A. Njoku -- Catholic humanitarian aid and the Nigeria-Biafra civil war / Paul J. Yancho -- Gender and pastoral care. Engaging patriarchy : Pentecostal gender ideology and practices in Nigeria / Adelaide Maame Akua Boadi -- African womanist self-fashioning : Zaynab Alkali's The stillborn and Nigeria Muslim north / Hannah Ngozi Eby Chukwu -- Soul care in Nigeria : constructing Pentecostal models of pastoral care and counseling / Wilhelmina J. Kalu -- Nigerian Pentecostalism abroad. Encountering history : Christianity and identity in Nigerian diaspora churches / Edith A. Miguda -- Half a century of touching lives : Nigerian charismatic personalities and African (Ghanaian) Christianity, 1953-2003 / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- Nigerian Pentecostal missionary enterprise in Kenya / Philomena Njeri Mwaura