Christianity and Public Culture in Africa

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments this volume is a result of the Cambridge/Africa Collaborative research Programme, which brought four of its contributors to the university of Cambridge for a period of research in 2007–8.the visits were made possible by support from the leverhulme trust. the conference at which versions of the chapters were presented was hosted and partly funded by the Centre for research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities and the Centre of African Studies at Cambridge. A special debt of gratitude is owed to derek Peterson, who has provided intellectual and practical support for this project from its inception to the editing of the present volume. the colleagues who participated in the conference as discussants or speakers but whose contributions are not published here are also gratefully acknowledged: Joel Cabrita, rijk van dijk, matthew engelke,thomas g. Kirsch, and Anthony Simpson. ...