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Introduction: Fundamental Differences
1. Anatomy of a Riot
2. Love and Violence
3. From Satan'ts Masterpiece to the Social Problem of Islam
4. A Hausa Spiritual Vernacular
5. African Agency and the Growth of the Church Maradi Region, 1927-1960
6. Disciplining the Christian: Defining Elderhood, Christian Marriage, and God's Work, 1933-1955
7. An Extremely Dangerous Suspect: From Vichy-Era Travails to Postwar Triumph
8. Impasses in Vernacular Education, 1945-1995
9. Handmaid to the Gospel: SIM's Medical Work in Niger, 1944-1975
10. The Tree of Life: Regenerating and Gendering the Garden after the Fall, 1975-2000
11. Ca bouge: Hausa Christian Practice in a Muslim Milieu
Epilogue: SIM's Successors and the Pentecostal Explosion

Barbara M. Cooper looks closely at the Sudan Interior Mission, an evangelical Christian mission that has taken a tenuous hold in a predominantly Hausa Muslim area on the southern fringe of Niger. Based on sustained fieldwork, personal interviews, and archival research, this vibrant, sensitive, compelling, and candid book gives a unique glimpse into an important dimension of religious life in Africa. Cooper’s involvement in a violent religious riot provides a useful backdrop for introducing other themes and concerns such as Bible translation, medical outreach, public preaching, tensions between English-speaking and French-speaking missionaries, and the Christian mission’s changing views of Islam.