Since independence in 1963, Kenya has been a personalised patronage state, run by a corrupt elite for its own benefit. Under the bland label 'Kenyan Christianity', several different if overlapping realities can be distinguished, and it is these which this book investigates, relating them to the country's politics and public life.

Paul Gifford teaches in the Department for the Study of Religions at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of several works on African Christianity: African Christianity: its Public Role and Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy, both of which were published by Hurst.