TY - BOOK AU - Sanneh, Lamin O. TI - Encountering the west: Christianity and the global cultural process : The african dimension SN - 0551028114 PY - 1993/// CY - London PB - Marshall Pickering KW - Christianity and culture. Missions. Missions -- Africa. Christianity and other religions. Christianity and other religions -- Islam. Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. Religious pluralism -- Christianity. Africa -- Civilization -- Western influences. Christianity Christianity and culture Christianity and other religions Civilization -- Western influences Interfaith relations Islam Missions Religious pluralism -- Christianity Africa N2 - Takes as its subject the emergence of a distinctive Third-World - particularly African - Christianity, as it uncouples itself from the Western cultural package in which Christianity was introduced there. Today the focus is reversed - non-Western nations have much to teach the West about the Gospel. ER -