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Christianity, Politics and Public Life in Kenya
Paul Gifford
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Hardcover. Kenya is noted for its rich variety of African indigenous Churches, all originating in a defence of Kenyan cultures. This book discusses their deployment of the media, crusades, organisation, theology and use of the Bible, and above all the economics that has made this phenomenon possible. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; HRAM2; HRC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 145. .
Since independence in 1963, Kenya has been a classic personalised patronage state, run by a corrupt elite for its own benefit, as became tragically evident in December 2007's stolen election and its aftermath. Kenya is also said to be 80 percent Christian. Under the bland label 'Kenyan Christianity', several different overlapping realities can be distinguished, and it is these which Gifford investigates in this book, relating them to the country's politics and public life. The politically engaged form that challenged the dysfunctional one-party state in the early 1990s is given due prominence, but Gifford contends that today the mainline churches, ... Read more
Since independence in 1963, Kenya has been a classic personalised patronage state, run by a corrupt elite for its own benefit, as became tragically evident in December 2007's stolen election and its aftermath. Kenya is also said to be 80 percent Christian. Under the bland label 'Kenyan Christianity', several different overlapping realities can be distinguished, and it is these which Gifford investigates in this book, relating them to the country's politics and public life. The politically engaged form that challenged the dysfunctional one-party state in the early 1990s is given due prominence, but Gifford contends that today the mainline churches, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781850659341
SKU
V9781850659341
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Ref
99-10
About Paul Gifford
Paul Gifford teaches in the Department for the Study of Religions at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of several works on African Christianity: 'African Christianity: its Public Role' and 'Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy', both of which were published by Hurst.
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