This book reconstructs the vertical and horizontal patterns of the coming of Christianity into various parts of Igboland from a vast array of sources and multidisciplinary resources. The author breaks Igboland into subculture theatres and explores the connections between ecology and religion with a cultural framework. In an attempt to explain why different parts of Igboland responded differently to Christianity, he also engages the socio-political, economic, and other cultural forces that shaped the fortunes of Christianity.
Many accounts of Igbo Christianity in the post-Civil War period tend to deal with a past that was dominated by missionary impulse. This author, however, turns to the spiritual revival that occurred in the 1970s and that webbed the import of other cultural changes in religion and education, to give one of the first holistic accounts of the explosion of contemporary Christianity in Igboland.
