Yale University Library Research Guides: African Christianity: Sudan

Sudan & South Sudan

Christianity and Catastrophe in South Sudan: Civil War, Migration, and the Rise of Dinka Anglicanism by Jesse A. Zink Looks at the emergence of Anglicanism in South Sudan, arguing that Christianity offered the Dinka new resources that allowed them to cope with a rapidly changing world and provided answers to the spiritual questions that war raised.
Day of Devastation, Day of Contentment: The History of the Sudanese Church Across 2000 Years by Roland Werner, William Anderson, Andrew Wheeler
Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa: Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan by Haggai Erlich An analysis of political, military, and diplomatic developments in the Horn of Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present is combined with an exploration of the ways in which religious formulations of the nearby 'other' both influenced policymaking and were reshaped by it.
Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan (Online) by Christopher Tounsel Looks at the centrality of Christian worldviews to the ideological construction of South Sudan and the inability of shared religion to prevent conflict.

A Concise History of South Sudan by Anders Breidlid (Editor)
Historical Dictionary of the Sudan (Online) by Robert S. Kramer; Richard A. Lobban Jr.; Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban Includes over 700 entries, which deal with important personalities, politics, the economy, society, culture, religion and inevitably the civil war. There are also appendixes and an extensive bibliography.
A History of Modern Sudan by Robert O. Collins Traces Sudan's history across two hundred years to show how many of the tragedies of today have been planted in its past.
A History of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day by P. M. Holt; M. W. Daly In its 6th edition, this book covers the most recent developments that have occurred in Sudan over the last nine years, including the crisis in Darfur.