Chiese Indipendenti nell'Africa Contemporanea. Cambiamento sociale e problematiche di genere

This article illustrates the numerous original social functions operated by the new religious movements and by the Africam Independent Churches. In particular it illustrates the contex of the contemporary urbanized Africa. Exactly this type of issue has emerged in the most recent publications in thia srea, as the central observational interest. The gender issues demonstrate according to the author, that the potentiality of research in this area can be improved, along with a new orientation of the fundamental problems dealt with in the analysis of movements and churches.