This assemblage of essays on proselytization and communal self-determination in Africa is one of the first books to be published in a new book series entitled "Religion and Human Rights." A venture of the Law and Religion Program of Emory University School of Law, the series explores in interdisciplinary fashion the problematic relationship between religion and human rights around the globe. A primary objective of the series is the discovery of both the religious and legal sources of human rights.
Selected Chapters
"Church and State Relations, Western Norms, Muslim Practice, and the African Experience: A Comparative Account of Origin and Practice"
"Religious Proselytization: Historical and Theological Perspectives at the End of the Twentieth Century"
"Returning to My Roots: African 'Religions' and the State"
"Scramble for Souls: Religious Intervention among the Dinka in Sudan"
Contributors
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, J. Paul MArtin, Hary Winter, Farid Esack, Lamin Sanneh, J.D. Van Der Vyver, Tshikala K. Biaya, Makau Mutua, Francis M. Deng, Benjamin F. Soares, Rosalind I.J. Hackett, Hannah W. Kinoti, Chabha Bouslimani
