Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Contributors
I. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
1. Communities of Believers: Exploring African Immigrant Religion in the United States
2. African Immigrant Churches in the United States and the Study of Black Church History
3. The Andrew Syndrome: Models in Understanding Nigerian Diaspora
II. Reverse Mission: Faith, Practice, and the Immigrant Journey
4. Non-Western Christianity in the Western World: African Immigrant Churches in the Diaspora
5. Portable Faith: The Global Mission of African Initiated Churches
III. Gender, Ethnicity, and Identity
6. Gender, Identity, and Power in African Immigrant Evangelical Churches
7. Gender and Change in an African Immigrant Church: An Anthropologist and a (Former) Prophetess Reflect
8. West African Muslims in America: When Are Muslims Not Muslims?
9. African Religious Beliefs and Practices in Diaspora: An Ethnographic Observation of Activities at an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church in Los Angeles
IV. Civic Engagement and Political Incorporation
10. Transnationalism, Religion, and the African Diaspora in Canada: An Examination of Ghanaians and Ghanaian Churches
11. Singing the Lord's Song in a Foreign Land: Spirituality, Communality, and Identity in a Ghanaian Immigrant Congregation
12. African Immigrant Churches and the New Christian Right
13. African Muslims in the United States: The Nigerian Case
14. Conclusion
Contributors
Index