Paul Gifford

Paul Gifford, B.A. (Wellington), M.Litt. (Oxon), b. 1944, is Professor of African Christianity in the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London).

Publications

Books: author

*Paul Gifford, "The Religious Right in Southern Africa" (Harare: Baobab Books; University of Zimbabwe Publications, 1988)

*Paul Gifford, "The New Crusaders: Christianity and the New Right in Southern Africa" (Pluto Perspectives; London: Pluto, 1991)

*Paul Gifford, "Christianity and Politics in Doe's Liberia" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)

*Paul Gifford with Steve Brouwer and Susan D. Rose, "Exporting the American Gospel: Global Christian Fundamentalism" (London; New York: Routledge, 1996)

*Paul Gifford, "African Christianity: Its Public Role" (London: Hurst, 1998)

*Paul Gifford, "Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy" (London: Hurst; Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Accra: Ghana Universities Press, 2003)

Chapters in books

*Paul Gifford, 'The complex provenance of some Elements of African Pentecostal Theology', in André Corten and Ruth Marshall-Fratani, eds., "Between Babel and Pentecost: Transnational Pentecostialism in Africa and Latin America" (London: Hurst, 2001), pp. 62-79

*Paul Gifford, 'The Bible as a Political Document in Africa', in Niels Kastfelt, ed., "Scriptural Politics: the Bible and the Koran as Political Models in the Middle East and Africa" (London: Hurst, 2003), pp. 16-28

Articles in journals

*Paul Gifford, 'Some Recent Developments In African Christianity', "African Affairs" 93 (1994), 513-34

*Paul Gifford, 'Ghana's Charismatic Churches', "Journal of Religion in Africa" 24 (1994), 241-65

*Paul Gifford, 'Liberia', "Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart" 5 (2002), 323

*Paul Gifford, 'Persistence and Change in Contemporary African Religion', "Social Compass" 51:2 (2004), 169-76