The Politics of Gender Reform in West Africa: Family, Religion, and the State (Contending Modernities) 026820506X, 9780268205065

Pastoral Power, Clerical State: Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria (Contending Modernities) 026820313X, 9780268203139

Ebenezer Obadare examines the overriding impact of Nigerian Pentecostal pastors on their churches, and how they have sha

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Business and the State in Southern Africa: The Politics of Economic Reform 9781626371019

Why are productive, development-supporting relations between business and government still so rare in Africa? Scott Tayl

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The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa 9781685859336

The authors explore the impact of Islam on the lives of West African women, particularly (but not exclusively) in Nigeri

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Who Are My People?: Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa (Contending Modernities) 0268202567, 9780268202569

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Religion, Populism, and Modernity: Confronting White Christian Nationalism and Racism (Contending Modernities) 0268205825, 9780268205829

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Militancy and Violence in West Africa: Religion, politics and radicalisation 1138856347, 9781138856349

This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa.

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Playing the Marginality Game: Identity Politics in West Africa 9781789201901

In Guinea, situated against the background of central government struggles, rural elites use identity politics through c

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Protecting motherhood: women and the family in the politics of postwar West Germany 9780520079038, 9780520205161

Robert G. Moeller is the first historian of modern German women to use social policy as a lens to focus on society'

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The Last Best Place?: Gender, Family, and Migration in the New West 9780804792974

Southwest Montana is beautiful country, evoking mythologies of freedom and escape long associated with the West. Partly

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Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China 9780804771139

This volume combines the perspective of religion as a constructed category of modernity with the analytic focus and empi

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