RT Review T1 Christianity and Public Culture in Africa JF A journal of church and state VO 54 IS 1 SP 145 OP 147 A1 Haynes, Jeffrey LA English YR 2012 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783936592 AB The role of religion in the public realm in sub-Saharan Africa (henceforward, Africa) is controversial. In order to understand the role of religion in political and social discourse in contemporary Africa—that is, as an ideology of attempted hegemonic control, on the one hand, and as a mobilizing vehicle of community organization to help fend off that control, on the other—scholars have pointed to the importance of the colonial era. During that period, both Christianity and Islam developed and spread as major regional religions, with variable impacts on both politics and society. K1 Rezension DO 10.1093/jcs/csr130