Elizabeth Isichei
Biographic Data
| ID | 213084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Isichei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Isichei |
| SIGNATURE | ISICHEI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 156 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Christianity, Historiography in Africa
The Religious Traditions of Africa
This work is a first of its kind historical introduction to the major religions of Africa. The vast majorities of Africa's peoples have been Muslim, Christian, or Traditionalist for a great deal of time, making an inclusive study of these religions essential. Isichei's work gives equal attention to all three religions and balances the elements of each to construct an easily accessible overview. It is also the first book to provide a comprehensive…
Voices of the Poor in Africa
Isichei's fine book points the way to further integration between anthropology and history, providing a rich example of the means by which scholars can investigate popular consciousness by taking seriously the world of symbolic meaning. - Intl. J of African Historical Studies Vol 36 No 2 (2003). Elizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumour and the poetics of memory - an approach different from the qua…
Entirely for God
A History of Christianity in Africa from Antiquity to the Present
A History of Christianity in Africa examines the origins and development of Christianity in Africa from the early story of Egyptian Christianity to the spectacular growth, vitality, and diversity of the churches in Africa today. Isichei opens with the brilliance of Christianity in Africa in antiquity and shows how Christian Egypt and North Africa produced some of the most influential intellects of the time. She then discusses the churches founded…
A History of African Societies to 1870
A History of African Societies to 1870
A History of African Societies to 1870
Africans. The History of a Continent
In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the present day, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, but during the last century their inherited culture has interacted with medical progress to produce the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. This new edition incorporates genetic and…
Years of Christianity in Africa
The Church in Africa 1450-1950
A History of Christianity in Africa
Some ambiguities in the academic study of religion
(1993). Some ambiguities in the academic study of religion. Religion: Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 379-390
Visions and Visionaries. The Search for Alternative Forms of Authority Among Catholic Conservatives / Visions et visionnaires. La recherche de formes alternatives d'autorité chez les conservateurs cat…
Isichei Elizabeth. Visions and Visionaries. The Search for Alternative Forms of Authority Among Catholic Conservatives / Visions et visionnaires. La recherche de formes alternatives d'autorité chez les conservateurs catholiques. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°75, 1991. pp. 113-125
On Being Invisible
Myth, gender and society in pre-colonial Asaba
Asaba is an Igbo community on the west bank of the Niger. Asaba people believe that it was founded by Nnebisi, the son of a pawn and a slave. This paper analyses the various versions of the myth and the ways in which it runs counter to Asaba values
Change in Anaguta Traditional Religion
Cet article analyse les changements dans la religion traditionnelle chez les Anaguta, petit groupe ethnique vivant près de Jos dans le centre du Nigéria. Le Dieu suprême, Uuoyang, est un dieu lointain à présent facilement identifiable au dieu chrétien. Mais les esprits les plus importants dans la religion traditionnelle étaient andugubishe et anaburr, voix d'origine invisible, probablement indigènes, et Fankai, masque (mascarade au Nigèria), cert…
The Meaning of Religious Conversion in Africa
On Masks and Audible Ghosts
a voice disguiser. This cult is linked with a number of visible manifestations, called masquerades in Nigeria, which are conceptualised as wives or messengers of Abvwoi. I then discuss the extremely similar and perhaps related4 cult, Ku, found among a neighbouring people, the Ham. This too is manifested in disguised voices and various masquerades. The next sector of the paper describes four well documented cases of the adoption of new cults of th…
The Maitatsine Risings in Nigeria 1980-85
Maitatsine est le surnom de Muhammadu Marwa, fondateur d'un mouvement religieux dissident de l'islam, mouvement qu'on designe egalement Maitatsine ou Kalo Kato| le fondateur est mort au cours de la premiere revolte de ses adherents a Kano en 1980. Son enseignement| les revoltes populaires des desherites en 1980, 1982, 1984 et 1985, et deja en 1972 et 1979. Des 1962, le fondateur, predicateur dissident, avait ete deporte
On Masks and Audible Ghosts
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A History of Nigeria
Books/Livres
Oral Traditions from the Gambia, Vol. I
Entirely for God
A History of the Igbo People
The Maitatsine Risings in Nigeria 1980-85
Maitatsine est le surnom de Muhammadu Marwa, fondateur d'un mouvement religieux dissident de l'islam, mouvement qu'on designe egalement Maitatsine ou Kalo Kato| le fondateur est mort au cours de la premiere revolte de ses adherents a Kano en 1980. Son enseignement| les revoltes populaires des desherites en 1980, 1982, 1984 et 1985, et deja en 1972 et 1979. Des 1962, le fondateur, predicateur dissident, avait ete deporte
Missionary Enterprise and Rivalry in Igboland 1857–1914
Journal Article Missionary Enterprise and Rivalry in Igboland 1857–1914 Get access Missionary Enterprise and Rivalry in Igboland 1857–1914, by F. K. Ekechi. Frank Cass, 1972. xv+298 pp. £4·00. ELIZABETH ISICHEI ELIZABETH ISICHEI University of NigeriaNsukka Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 287, April 1973, Pages 207–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096367 P…
A History of West Africa since 1800
Historical Change in an Ibo Polity
Asaba is an Ibo town, which, because of its position on the Niger, came into relatively early contact with Europeans. This means that we have materials for its history in European records for more than a hundred years. This article is based on these records, and on present-day oral traditions. It begins with an account of Asaba's traditional social and political structure, and its former role in the economic life of the lower Niger. Asaba traditi…
A History of African Societies to 1870
A History of Christianity in Africa
Entirely for God
The Ibo People and the Europeans
Some ambiguities in the academic study of religion
(1993). Some ambiguities in the academic study of religion. Religion: Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 379-390
A History of the Igbo People
From Sect to Denomination in English Quakerism, with Special Reference to the Nineteenth Century
T HE TERMS sect and denomination, refined by successive sociologists into valuable weapons of analysis, refer essentially to two possible attitudes which are implicit in the situation of a minority religious group and its relationship to the wider society.' Members of a sect are conscious of their alienation from their environment, and frequently they strengthen and emphasize this by adopting distinctive patterns of behaviour, by compelling group…
A History of African Societies to 1870
Perceptions of God and the Churches in Obudu
One of the most interesting and least studied dimensions of Christianity in contemporary Africa concerns the way in which the churches are actually perceived at the grassroots level, in the villages. How are the various denominations seen, by those within, and without? How do traditionalists see the Christian presence, and define their own role in relationship to it? The essay which follows seeks to shed some light on these questions, in a case s…
Seven Varieties of Ambiguity
Ibo and Christian Beliefs Some Aspects of a Theological Encounter
Journal Article IBO AND CHRISTIAN BELIEFS SOME ASPECTS OF A THEOLOGICAL ENCOUNTER Get access ELIZABETH ISICHEI ELIZABETH ISICHEI Nuffield CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 271, April 1969, Pages 121–134, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095862 Published: 01 April 1969
From Sect to Denomination in English Quakerism, with Special Reference to the Nineteenth Century
T HE TERMS sect and denomination, refined by successive sociologists into valuable weapons of analysis, refer essentially to two possible attitudes which are implicit in the situation of a minority religious group and its relationship to the wider society.' Members of a sect are conscious of their alienation from their environment, and frequently they strengthen and emphasize this by adopting distinctive patterns of behaviour, by compelling group…
Historical Change in an Ibo Polity
Asaba is an Ibo town, which, because of its position on the Niger, came into relatively early contact with Europeans. This means that we have materials for its history in European records for more than a hundred years. This article is based on these records, and on present-day oral traditions. It begins with an account of Asaba's traditional social and political structure, and its former role in the economic life of the lower Niger. Asaba traditi…
Ibo and Christian Beliefs Some Aspects of a Theological Encounter
Journal Article IBO AND CHRISTIAN BELIEFS SOME ASPECTS OF A THEOLOGICAL ENCOUNTER Get access ELIZABETH ISICHEI ELIZABETH ISICHEI Nuffield CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 271, April 1969, Pages 121–134, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095862 Published: 01 April 1969
The Gospel on the Banks of the Niger
Journal Article The Gospel on the Banks of the Niger: journals and notices of the native missionaries accompanying the Niger expedition of 1857–1859 Get access The Gospel on the Banks of the Niger: journals and notices of the native missionaries accompanying the Niger expedition of 1857–1859, by the Samuel Crowther and the John Taylor Christopher. Dawsons, Colonical History Series, 1968. xi, 451pp. 100s. First published 1859. ELIZABETH ISICHEI EL…
Idanre and other Poems
Journal Article Idanre and other Poems Get access Idanre and other Poems, by Wole Soyinka. Methuen, 1967. 88pp. 6s. Satellites, by Lenrie Peters. Heinemann, African Writers Series, 1967. 101pp. 18s. ELIZABETH ISICHEI ELIZABETH ISICHEI Nuffield CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 271, April 1969, Page 176, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095881 Publi…
Seven Varieties of Ambiguity
SEVEN VARIETIES OF AMBIGUITY: SOME PATTERNS OF IGBO* RESPONSE TO CHRISTIAN MISSIONS 1 BY ELIZABETH ISICHEI (University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania) Anyone who writes in brief compass on a theme of this kind is immediately confronted by a number of difficulties and pitfalls. The most obvious is the danger of abstraction. Can one meaningfully reduce the almost infinite variety of responses in a society as various as Igboland, to a phenomenon as comp…
Seven Varieties of Ambiguity
Victorian Quakers
Benin and the Europeans 1485–1897
Missionary Enterprise and Rivalry in Igboland 1857–1914
Journal Article Missionary Enterprise and Rivalry in Igboland 1857–1914 Get access Missionary Enterprise and Rivalry in Igboland 1857–1914, by F. K. Ekechi. Frank Cass, 1972. xv+298 pp. £4·00. ELIZABETH ISICHEI ELIZABETH ISICHEI University of NigeriaNsukka Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 287, April 1973, Pages 207–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096367 P…
The Ibo People and the Europeans. The Genesis of a Relationship to 1906
The Ibo People and the Europeans
Perceptions of God and the Churches in Obudu
One of the most interesting and least studied dimensions of Christianity in contemporary Africa concerns the way in which the churches are actually perceived at the grassroots level, in the villages. How are the various denominations seen, by those within, and without? How do traditionalists see the Christian presence, and define their own role in relationship to it? The essay which follows seeks to shed some light on these questions, in a case s…
Social and Economic Change
Political and Economic Change
Some Patterns of Social and Economic Change
Education and the Growth of Social Differentiation
Epilogue
The Growth of Christianity in Igboland
Igbo Society in the Middle Years
The End of Colonialism
Igbos Abroad in the Era of the Slave Trade
The Crisis of the Middle Years
Igbo Resistance to Colonial Conquest
The Dawn of Igbo History
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