Paul Gifford

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Paul Gifford, B.A. (Wellington), M.Litt. (Oxon), b. 1944, is Professor of African Christianity in the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London).

Contents 1 Academic activities 2 Publications 2.1 Books: author 2.2 Books: editor 2.3 Chapters in books 2.4 Articles in journals

[edit] Academic activities

He is a member of the Centre of African Studies and teaches a graduate course, Comparing Christianities, as well as undergraduate and graduate courses on Religion, Power and Society in Modern Africa.

[edit] Publications

[edit] Books: author

• Paul Gifford, The Religious Right in Southern Africa (Harare: Baobab Books; University of Zimbabwe Publications, 1988)

• Paul Gifford, The New Crusaders: Christianity and the New Right in Southern Africa (Pluto Perspectives; London: Pluto, 1991)

• Paul Gifford, Christianity and Politics in Doe's Liberia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)

• Paul Gifford with Steve Brouwer and Susan D. Rose, Exporting the American Gospel: Global Christian Fundamentalism (London; New York: Routledge, 1996)

• Paul Gifford, African Christianity: Its Public Role (London: Hurst, 1998)

• Paul Gifford, Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy (London: Hurst; Bloomington: University of Indiana Press; Accra: Ghana Universities Press, 2003)

[edit] Books: editor

• Paul Gifford, ed., The Christian Churches and the Democratisation of Africa (Studies on Religion in Africa 12; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995)

• Paul Gifford, ed., 2000 Years and Beyond: Faith, Identity, and the 'Common Era' (London: Routledge, 2003)

[edit] Chapters in books

• Paul Gifford, 'The complex provenance of some Elements of African Pentecostal Theology', in André Corten and Ruth Marshall-Fratani, eds., Between Babel and Pentecost: Transnational Pentecostialism in Africa and Latin America (London: Hurst, 2001), pp. 62-79

• Paul Gifford, 'The Bible as a Political Document in Africa', in Niels Kastfelt, ed., Scriptural Politics: the Bible and the Koran as Political Models in the Middle East and Africa (London: Hurst, 2003), pp. 16-28

[edit] Articles in journals

• Paul Gifford, 'Some Recent Developments In African Christianity', African Affairs 93 (1994), 513-34

• Paul Gifford, 'Ghana's Charismatic Churches', Journal of Religion in Africa 24 (1994), 241-65

• Paul Gifford, 'Liberia', Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart 5 (2002), 323

• Paul Gifford, 'Persistence and Change in Contemporary African Religion', Social Compass 51:2 (2004), 169-76