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