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Cooper's involvement in a violent religious riot provides a useful backdrop for introducing other themes and concerns such as Bible translation, medical outreach, public preaching, tensions between English-speaking and French-speaking missionaries, and the Christian mission's changing views of Islam.
AcknowledgmentsAcronymsIntroduction: Fundamental Differences1. Anatomy of a Riot2. Love and Violence3. From "Satan's Masterpiece" to "The Social Problem of Islam"4. A Hausa Spiritual Vernacular5. African Agency and the Growth of the Church in the Maradi Region, 1927-19606. Disciplining the Christian: Defining Elderhood, Christian Marriage, and "God's Work," 1933-19557. "An Extremely Dangerous Suspect": From Vichy-Era Travails to Postwar Triumph8. Impasses in Vernacular Education, 1945-19959. Handmaid to the Gospel: SIM's Medical Work in Niger, 1944-197510. The Tree of Life: Regenerating and Gendering the Garden after the Fall, 1975-200011. Ça bouge: Hausa Christian Practice in a Muslim MilieuEpilogue: SIM's Successors and the Pentecostal ExplosionGlossaryNotesWorks ConsultedIndex