African immigrant religions in America /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Gemignani, Regina, Olupona, Jacob K. (Jacob Kẹhinde), 1951-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2007]
Subjects:	African Americans > Religion. Africa, Sub-Saharan > Emigration and immigration > Religious aspects. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Communities of believers : exploring African immigrant religion in the United States / Jacob K. Olupona
African immigrant churches in the United States and the study of Black church history / David D. Daniels
The Andrew syndrome : models in understanding Nigerian diaspora / Ogbu M. Kalu
Non-Western Christianity in the Western world : African immigrant churches in the diaspora / Akintunde Akinade
Portable faith : the global mission of African initiated churches / Elias Bongmba
Gender, identity, and power in African immigrant Evangelical churches / Regina Gemignani
Gender and change in an African immigrant church : an anthropologist and a (former) prophetess reflect / Deidre Helen Crumbley and Gloria Malake Cline-Smythe
West African Muslims in America : when are Muslims not Muslims? / Linda Beck
African religious beliefs and practices in diaspora : an ethnographic observation of activities at an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian church in Los Angeles / Worku Nida
Transnationalism, religion, and the African diaspora in Canada : an examination of Ghanaians and Ghanaian churches / Wisdom J. Tettey
Singing the Lord's song in a foreign land : spirituality, communality, and identity in a Ghanaian immigrant congregation / Moses Biney
African immigrant churches and the new Christian Right / Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome
African Muslims in the United States : the Nigerian case / Yushau Sodiq
Conclusion / Jacob K. Olupona and Regina Gemignani.