ABSTRACT

The previous chapter positioned the East African Revival historically within the Christian renewal movements of the twentieth century and within an international evangelical revivalist network. This chapter outlines the historiography of the Revival and raises some points of conceptualization of the movement within the historical, anthropological and theological studies of African Christianity. It scrutinizes the relative lack of attention the Revival has received from wider scholarship and suggests that recent calls for a re-examination of the study of Christianity may be aided by a greater understanding of the Revival.