African Pentecostalism and World Christianity: Essays in Honor of J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu - Paperback

by Nimi Wariboko (Editor), Adeshina Afolayan (Editor)

In the last fifty years, the history of World Christianity has been disproportionally shaped, if not defined, by African Pentecostalism. The objective of this volume is to investigate and interrogate the critical junctures at which World Christianity invigorates and is invigorated by African Pentecostalism. The essays of the thinkers gathered here examine the general relationships between World Christianity and Africa and the specific interplays between World Christianity and African Pentecostalism. Scholars from multiple disciplines, continents, and countries evaluate how the theological scholarship and missional works of eminent African intellectual Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu have contributed to the scholarly understanding of how Global Christianity has been mediated by its reception in Africa. They also investigate how African Pentecostalism has been shaped by its contact with the diverse forms of Christianity in Africa and the rest of the world. With contributions from: Opoku Onyinah Harvey C. Kwiyani Kirsteen Kim Craig S. Keener Charles Prempeh Kenneth R. Ross Trevor H. G. Smith Vivian Dzokoto Chammah J. Kaunda Felix Kang Esoh Patrick Kofi Amissah Caleb Nyanni Marleen de Witte Oluwaseun Abimbola Philomena Njeru Nwaura Faith Lugazia Dietrich Werner Allan H. Anderson

Author Biography

Nimi Wariboko is the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. He is the author of Nigerian Pentecostalism (2014).



Adeshina Afolayan teaches philosophy at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is a coeditor of The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy (2017), Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa (2018), and the author of Philosophy and National Development in Nigeria (2018).