Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present

This comprehensive Handbook provides chapter length surveys of the history ofChristian missions and Christian churches on the African continent since the timeof Christ. Africa is rapidly becoming the most Christianized region of the world.While common narratives about Christianity tend to present Christianity as a setof ideas and beliefs imposed on Africa from the outside, such narratives holdlittle meaning for African Christians or for those seeking to understand Christianityin Africa as an indigenous faith. The aim of the Handbook is to propose a set ofscholarly starting points for a new set of narratives. The chapters collected herecommunicate an idea of Christianity as it has been embraced among Africanpeoples at particular historical moments. It therefore grants voice to the variousstrands of African Christianity on their own terms, and offers scholarly study ofwhat these voices teach us about how the world's most adhered to religion ispracticed and understood on the continent of Africa.