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Introduction: African Initiated Christianity and Sustainable Development / Philipp Öhlmann, Wilhelm Gräb, Marie-Luise Frost -- Spirit and Empowerment: The African Initiated Church Movement and Development / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- The Challenge of Environment and Climate Justice -- Imperatives of an Eco-Theological Reformation of Christianity in African Contexts / Dietrich Werner -- African Initiated Churches and Development from Below: Subjecting a Thesis to Closer Scrutiny / Ignatius Swart -- Distinguished Church Leader Essay: Theology in African Initiated Churches: Reflections from an East African Perspective / John Njeru Gichimu -- Distinguished Church Leader Essay: Roles of Women in African Independent and Pentecostal Churches in Nigeria / Atinuke Abdulsalami -- A Starving Man Cannot Shout Halleluyah: African Pentecostal Churches and the Challenge of Promoting Sustainable Development / Olufunke Adeboye -- Approaches to Transformation and Development: The Case of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Nigeria / Babatunde A. Adedibu -- The Role of Pentecostalism in Sustainable Development in South West Nigeria / Mobolaji Oyebiso Ajibade -- Aladura Churches as Agents of Social Transformation in South-West Nigeria / Akinwumi Akindolie -- Distinguished Church Leader Essay: Aladura Theology: The Case of the Church of the Lord (Prayer Fellowship) Worldwide / Rufus Okikiola Ositelu -- Distinguished Church Leader Essay: The Church of Pentecost and its Role in Ghanaian Society / Opoku Onyinah -- An Evaluation of Pentecostal Churches as Agents of Sustainable Development in Africa: A Case of the Church of Pentecost / Emmanuel Anim.

Stories between Christianity and Islam offers an original and nuanced understanding of Christian-Muslim relations that shifts focus back from worn-out discussions of superiority, conflict, and appropriation to the living world of connectivity and creativity. The late antique and medieval Near East is often defined as a world of stories shared by Christians and Muslims. Public storytelling was a key feature for these late antique Christian and early Islamic communities, where men and women used the stories of saints to publicly interpret the past, comment on the present, and envision the future. In this book, Reyhan Durmaz uses these stories to demonstrate and analyze the mutually constitutive relationship between these two religions in the Middle Ages. With an in-depth study of storytelling in late antiquity and the mechanisms of hagiographical transmission between Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages, Durmaz develops a nuanced understanding of saints' stories as a tool for building identity, memory, and authority across confessional boundaries

Changing my religion -- Why I like agnosticism -- Traveling -- Flip-flopper -- Technianity -- Scripture -- Traditional views of Jesus -- Civil (dis)obedience and revolutionary change -- Communities that g ive hope -- Prayer : is there anybody out there? -- Conclusions and concert t-shirts -- Inspiration and insights.

Peter Horsfield is Professor of Communication at RMIT University, Australia. From 1987-1996, he was Dean of the Uniting Church Theological Hall and Lecturer in Applied Theology in the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne, Australia. His early study, Religious Television: The American Experience (2004) was influential in assessing the impact of the emerging phenomenon of televangelism in the U.S. From 1997-2005 he was a member of the International Study Commission on Media Religion and Culture. He has researched and published extensively in the area of the interaction of media and religion

This book studies the complementary features of the thought of David Hume and Edward Gibbon in the complete range of its confrontation with eighteenth-century Christianity. The ten chapters explore the iconoclasm of these two philosophical historians - Hume as the premier philosopher, Gibbon as the consummate historian - as they labored to `naturalize' the study of Christianity, particularly with attention to its social and political dimensions. No other work deals as comprehensively or thoroughly with the attempt of philosophical history's challenge to Christianity. Belief in miracles and the afterlife, the dimensions of fanaticism and superstition, and the nature of religious persecution were the themes that occupied Hume and Gibbon in the making of their critique of Christianity. This book makes a valuable contribution to scholarship in a number of fields including the history of ideas, religious studies, and philosophy. It will be of interest to philosophers of religion, historians of ideas, eighteenth-century intellectual historians, scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment, and Hume and Gibbon scholars

Little study has been devoted to the phenomenon of Crypto-Christianity. While some attention has been paid to the Crypto-Christians of Asia Minor, who were numerous, lived in groups, and endured a long time, the Crypto-Christians of the Balkans have been largely neglected, with the exception of an occasional work referring to only a single nationality, particularly the Greeks.

Isaiah Berlin : a critical description of his thought from a theological perspective -- Can Christians be pluralists? : value pluralism and the gift of diversity -- The application of Isaiah Berlin's understanding of social conflict to communities of faith -- Is toleration a Christian virtue? : beyond the disrespect of Enlightenment forbearance -- Epilogue in an ecclesiological key