Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by Esther Acolatse -- Introduction: The search for abundant life in African Christian religion: historical reinterpretation of Christian mission in Africa / Stan Chu Ilo -- African Christian religions and the quest for health, healing and wholeness -- African Christian religion: its scope in the global context / Caleb O. Oladipo -- In quest of wholeness: African Christians in the new Christianity / David Tonghou Ngong -- Searching for healing in a miraculous stream: the fate of God's people in Africa / Stan Chu Ilo -- African pentecostalism and the ecology of sickness and evil -- Eradicating evil in the search for practices of hope in Africa: witchcraft beliefs and accusations in contemporary Ghanaian Christianity / Cyril G. K. Fayose -- Pentecostal and charismatic renewal as a socio-religious phenomenon for transformation in Africa / Clement Majawa -- Taking Africa out of the African: eco-community, the Christian heritage of empire and neo-pentecostalism in Africa / Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo -- Mission, money, wealth, and the search for abundant life -- The African peoples and money: yesterday, today and tomorrow / Nathanaël Soede -- The place of money in mission between Africa and the West: a personal narrative / Jim Harries -- Nigeria, Europe and Christian mission: models of economic collaboration in the 21st century / Felix Enegho -- The African church and the impact of contemporary fundraising and sustainability / Levi Nkwocha -- To recycle or not to recycle: an ethical question in Africa's relation with the West / Aloysius Ochasi, Peter Clark, and Michael Barkowski -- In the wake of overt religiosity: a critical and appreciative perspective on religion as a force for social transformation and development in African society / Obaji M. Agbiji and Ignatius Swart.