Christianity in (South) Sudan: Historical backgrounds, contemporary contestations, and future directions

Christopher Tounsel

doi:10.1111/rec3.12460

Christianity in (South) Sudan: Historical backgrounds, contemporary contestations, and future directions

Christopher Tounsel

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Christianity has played an integral part of Sudanese life through colonialism, postcolonialism, civil wars, and secession. Through it all, writers from a variety of disciplinary and denominational backgrounds have recorded the diverse experiences of Christian individuals and organizations. This essay maps past and present work on Sudanese Christianity, offers assessments of the field, and offers conjecture on the directions that future scholarship on the subject may trek. Given religion's central role in Sudan's recent past, such a task is necessary to understand its possible futures.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e12460
Journal	Religion Compass
Volume	17
Issue number	5-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12460
State	Published - May 1 2023

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