Migration and Christian Identity in Congo (DRC)
Biographical note
Emma Wild-Wood, Ph D (2005), University of Edinburgh, is a tutor in the Cambridge Theological Federation. She taught for a number of years in DR Congo and Uganda and has published several articles on African Christianity.
Readership
Academic libraries and study centres focusing on Africa, global Christianity and Migration, also those with an interest in religious identity, the Great Lakes region and Anglicanism as a global phenomenon.
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