A critical examination of the impact of Evangelical Christianity on African societies todayEvangelical Christianity's presence is increasing exponentially in African states and is exercising significant influence in virtually all spheres of life.African Evangelicalism and the Transformation of Africa is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the impact of Evangelical Christianity on Africa. It examines the social, cultural, political, and e...

The essays collected in African Print Cultures claim African newspapers as subjects of historical and literary study. Newspapers were not only vehicles for anticolonial nationalism. They were also incubators of literary experimentation and networks by which new solidarities came into being. By focusing on the creative work that African editors and contributors did, this volume brings an infrastructure of African public culture into view.The first of four thematic sections,...

How Africa’s most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patrioticIdi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin’s regime survive for eight calamitous years? Drawing on recently uncovered archival material, Derek Peterson reconstructs the political logic of the era, focusing on the ordinary people—civil servants, curators and artists, businesspeople, patriots—who in...

A queer Anthology that explores the romantic life and happy ever afters of gay men navigating the LGBT landscape. All stories are written by Own Voice gay authors! From small towns to big cities, each story shows that love is love, no matter the season. Stories by Blake Allwood, Kelvin Young, Brent Archer, J. Scott Coatsworth, RJ Peterson, Derek Puddester, David Gray, Andrew McQuinn, Duncan Gaye, and M.D. Neu.

Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival shows how, in the era of African political independence, cosmopolitan Christian converts struggled with East Africa's patriots over the definition of culture and community. The book traces the history of the East African Revival, an evangelical movement that spread through much of eastern and central Africa. Its converts offered a subversive reading of culture, disavowing their compatriots and disregarding their obligations to kin. They earned...

How Africa's most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patrioticIdi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight calamitous years? Drawing on recently uncovered archival material, Derek Peterson reconstructs the political logic of the era, focusing on the ordinary people—civil servants, curators and artists, businesspeople, patriots—who in...

A queer Anthology that explores the romantic life and happy ever afters of gay men navigating the LGBT landscape. All stories are written by Own Voice gay authors! From small towns to big cities, each story shows that Pride is Pride and love is love, no matter the season. Stories by Adam J. Ridley, Kelvin Young, Kristian Parker, Jole Cannon, Dan B. Fierce, Connor Peterson, Derek Puddester, R Frank Davis, Andrew McQuinn, and M.D. Neu.

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theatre history to 1642. An internationally recognized board of scholars oversees the publication of MaRDiE. Readers who wish to deepen their understanding of early drama will find that the journal publishes wide-ranging discussions not only of plays and early performance history, but of topics relating to cultural history, as well ...

I HAD SENT INFORMATION REGARDING THE ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGES DONE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO IN 2010. I DID NOT GET ANY RESPONSE FROM ANY OF THE GOVERNMENTS AND BUSINESSES THAT I HAD SENT TO. I HAD THOUGHT THAT THEY MAY EVENTUALLY RESPOND WHEN THEY DEVELOPED NEW SITES, I ALSO HAD A MEANS OF CONTAINING OIL AND GAS SPILLS THAT WERE ACTIVE. THE EXPENSE FOR BUILDING AN ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSABLE OIL DEREK ON LAND OR SEA IS FAR LESS COSTLY THAN THE ENVIROPMENTAL DAMAGE AND CLEAN-UP COSTS. THIS DOCUMENT...

Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the processes and conditions that produce misfits, the means that enable them to undo their denomination as misfits, and the practices that turn those who fit into misfits, and vice versa. This collection of essays on misfit children...

Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court ritual, the artefacts produced by the heritage domain have become a resource for government administration, a library for traditionalists and a marketable source of value for cultural entrepreneurs. The Politics of Heritage in Africa draws together disparate fields of study - history, archaeology...

More than 500 years ago, 16th-century Reformer John Calvin was born—a theologian whose teachings set the stage for reformation of the church around the world. The modern world is in continual need of his Christ-exalting doctrine and vision of the Christian life. In 20 essays by leading Reformed pastors and scholars, this primer explores Calvin's life, teaching, and legacy for a new generation. This book is a clarion call to Christians everywhere to take seriously the ongoing need of theolo...