Christianity, Politics, and Public Life in Kenya

Paul Gifford

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October, 2009
Cloth, 276 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15442-0
$90.00

"A keen survey of the ideas and actions of Christian organizations and their leaders in Kenya." — Nicolas Van De Walle, Foreign Affairs

"Christianity, Politics, and Public Life in Kenya is an impressive book, full of detail and surprise for the scholar. As in his earlier work on Ghana, Paul Gifford goes through the sermons he's heard in Nairobi's churches with a fine-toothed comb, highlighting the rhetorical strategies that preachers use and the theology that underpins them. This is, in other words, a very valuable book. For Westerners, it usefully illuminates the great variety of Christian practice in Kenya today, and for Kenyans and scholars of Africa, it raises important questions about the role the church should play in a corrupt political world." — D. R. Peterson, University Lecturer in African History, Cambridge University

Related Subjects

• African Studies
• Christianity
• History

About the Author

Paul Gifford is professor of African Christianity at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of African Christianity: Its Public Role and Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy.

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