Freedom's Distant Shores

R Drew Smith is Scholar-in-Residence and Project Director of "Public Influences of African-American Churches Project" and of the "Faith Communities and Urban Families Project" at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

Preface Introduction, R. Drew Smith Part I: CHURCHES AND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS IN AFRICA 1. Shifting Perspectives on Africa in Mainline Protestant Social Thought, Mark Hulsether 2. Rev. James H. Robinson and American Support for African Democracy and Nation-Building, 1950s-1970s, Sandra J. Sarkela and Patrick Mazzeo 3. Martin Luther King, Jr., a "Coalition of Conscience," and Freedom in South Africa, Lewis Baldwin 4. A Transatlantic Comparison of a Black Theology of Liberation, Dwight N. Hopkins 5. Quaker Women in Kenya and Human Rights Issues, Stephen W. Angell 6. Mennonites and Peace-Building in Angola, Lutiniko Landu Miguel Pedro Part II: REVIVALISTIC CHURCHES, ECCLESIASTICAL CHURCHES, AND ETHICAL CHALLENGES 7. American Evangelists and Church-State Dilemmas in Multiple African Contexts, R. Drew Smith 8. American Pentecostalism and the Growth of Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements in Nigeria, Matthews A. Ojo 9. U.S. Evangelicals, Racial Politics, and Social Transition in Contemporary South Africa, R. Drew Smith Part III: CONSIDERING THE FUTURE: AMERICAN AND AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES 10. The Changing Nature of Christianity and the Challenge of U.S.-Africa Mission Partnerships, Marsha Snulligan Haney 11. Contemporary Public Theology in the United States and South Africa, Nico Koopman Conclusion, R. Drew Smith Notes About the Contributors Index

This fine collection of original essays completely shatters the myth promulgated only a few years ago that the "next Christendom" was flourishing in the global South completely on its own... The connections between U.S. and African Christianity remain strong and are far more complex than either demographic projections or postcolonial rhetoric would lead us to believe. --Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University Smith, editor of New Day Begun and Long March Ahead, has now edited a very strong collection of essays on the relationships of American Protestants and developments in postcolonial Africa.... Recommended. -- CHOICE