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CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY OF CHRISTIANITY. Daniel Patte, General Editor, in press (October 2009) Copyright ? Cambridge University Press Culture and Christianity. The relationship between Christianity and culture is a perennial problem. In his book Christ and Culture, H. Richard Niebuhr* analyzes the different ways in which this relationship has been conceived. His typology of five conceptions of this relationship is helpful for discerning how Christianity has been appropriated in various cultural contexts, taking Africa as the main example. a) Christ against Culture: When Christianity is