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Introduction -- Faith of my father, spirit of my mother -- Africa, my Africa -- The medicine room -- Inside the mind of an animist -- Animism embodied -- Some guiding instructions for the road -- The miracle of a century -- So, once upon a time. . . . -- The apostle and the queen -- The missionaries are coming -- Let the scramble begin -- Reading between the lines -- Beware of gifts -- The mode of the receiver -- Numbers don't lie? -- A marketplace of faiths -- What's in a name? -- What about Islam? -- Sowers and reapers of wrath -- Religion and politics -- Below the surface -- The dark side of light -- The spirit of African religion -- Pathological performance and prophetic practice -- The ghost and the darkness -- A religion of underdevelopment -- Religion works -- Pathological performance -- Prophetic practice -- Healing the earth, healing humanity -- Tears of a woman -- The enemy is us -- Creative animism -- Ecological gratitude -- Ecology as fullness of life -- Ecology as covenant -- The backbone of the church or gender rhetoric -- Numbers, words, and beyond -- Evolution and revolution -- An inventory of inequality -- Untapped leadership potential -- African women changing the face of theology -- Backbone of the church

The flourishing of religions -- Things are happening everywhere in Africa -- Christians are talking, singing, preaching, writing, arguing, discussing -- The root of all evil? -- Religion of the people, by the people, and for the people -- Conclusion -- Could this be an empty show? -- Suggested readings -- African religious and spiritual traditions in contemporary scholarship -- African Christianity and mission in history -- African women in theological discourse -- African theology, ethics, and church.