With Gods on Their Side
Basil Davidson
- The Church in Africa, 1450-1950 by Adrian Hastings
Oxford, 706 pp, £65.00, January 1995, ISBN 0 19 826921 8 - A History of Christianity in Africa from Antiquity to the Present by Elizabeth Isichei
SPCK, 420 pp, £25.00, February 1995, ISBN 0 281 04764 2 - Religion in Africa: Experience and Expression edited by Thomas Blakely, Walter van Beek and Dennis Thomson
Currey, 512 pp, £45.00, November 1994, ISBN 0 85255 206 8
Long-term ‘endings of an era’ tend nowadays to be announced with remarkable confidence. This may even be the case with an issue as controversial as the ending of territorial imperialism, truly a large affair. Yet there is much to suggest that it is ending, and the appearance of two large histories of Christianity in Africa, the first of their kind on any such scale, can be seen as another signal of this: a summing-up has evidently come to seem possible as well as desirable. Christianity will of course continue, and today in Africa there are immensely more Christians than ever before; but its assumptions will no longer be the same. The unconverted heathen, on a missionary perspective, are now resident in Britain, not in Borrioboola Gha.
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