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  • 4 - Sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora

  • David Lindenfeld, Louisiana State University
  • Book:
    World Christianity and Indigenous Experience
    Published online:
    30 April 2021
    Print publication:
    20 May 2021, pp 91-141

  • Summary

    Missionaries, finding that Islam and Judaism were impervious to their conversion efforts, concentrated on “improving” the non-Western Christians in the Middle East. The chapter traces the multiple Christian denominations stemming from pre-Islamic times and their status under Islam, including the Ottoman Empire. In the nineteenth century these Christians were receptive to Western educational efforts. Relations soured with the rise of nationalism and the drawing of territorial boundaries following World War I, resulting in the decline of the Christian population in the twentieth century.