African Conversion

Author : Brendan Carmody
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789982241168

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Religious Conversion: An African Perspective by Brendan Carmody Pdf

Religious Conversion: An African Perspective includes a selection of key texts which are not easily accessible elsewhere. Most of the chapters discuss the long-standing thesis of Robin Horton who argues that religious change results from social transformation. The contributors provide different perspectives on what remains an ongoing provocative, though inconclusive debate. The book has chapters on conversion in Africa from such authorities as Robin Horton, Humphrey Fisher, and Richard Gray. It also contains chapters on Zambia by Elizaebeth Colson, Brendan Carmody, Austin Cheyeka, Felix Phiri and W Van Binsbergen. This collection of chapters provides an introduction to the discussion surrounding the query: Did the Christian and Muslim messages bring something fundamentally new to the African religious horizon? What has indigenisation meant? What is the role of traditional religion?

Author : Carmody, Brendan
Publisher : Gadsden Publishers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789982240963

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Religious Conversion: An African Perspective by Carmody, Brendan Pdf

Religious Conversion: An African Perspective includes a selection of key texts which are not easily accessible elsewhere. Most of the chapters discuss the long-standing thesis of Robin Horton who argues that religious change results from social transformation. The contributors provide different perspectives on what remains an ongoing provocative, though inconclusive debate. The book has chapters on conversion in Africa from such authorities as Robin Horton, Humphrey Fisher, and Richard Gray. It also contains chapters on Zambia by Elizaebeth Colson, Brendan Carmody, Austin Cheyeka, Felix Phiri and W Van Binsbergen. This collection of chapters provides an introduction to the discussion surrounding the query: Did the Christian and Muslim messages bring something fundamentally new to the African religious horizon? What has indigenisation meant? What is the role of traditional religion?

Author : Brendan Patrick Carmody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Christian converts
ISBN : IND:30000079283085

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African Conversion by Brendan Patrick Carmody Pdf

Author : Cécile Fromont
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781469618722

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The Art of Conversion by Cécile Fromont Pdf

Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four centuries marked by war, the Atlantic slave trade, and, finally, the rise of nineteenth-century European colonialism. By offering an extensive analysis of the religious, political, and artistic innovations through which the Kongo embraced Christianity, Fromont approaches the country's conversion as a dynamic process that unfolded across centuries. The African kingdom's elite independently and gradually intertwined old and new, local and foreign religious thought, political concepts, and visual forms to mold a novel and constantly evolving Kongo Christian worldview. Fromont sheds light on the cross-cultural exchanges between Africa, Europe, and Latin America that shaped the early modern world, and she outlines the religious, artistic, and social background of the countless men and women displaced by the slave trade from central Africa to all corners of the Atlantic world.

Author : Dong Young Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610976176

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Understanding Religious Conversion by Dong Young Kim Pdf

Understanding Religious Conversion begins with emphasis on the value of respecting religious/theological interpretations of conversion while coordinating social scientific studies of how personal, social, and cultural issues are relevant to the human transformational process. It encourages us to bring together the perspectives of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and religious studies into critical and mutually-informing conversation for establishing a richer and more accurate perception of the complex phenomenon of religious conversion. The case of St. Augustine's conversion experience superbly illustrates the complicated and multidimensional process of religious change. By critically extending the contributions of the literature within Lewis Rambo's interdisciplinary framework, Dong Young Kim presents a more integrated picture of how personal, social, cultural, and religious/theological components interact with one another in the process of Augustine's conversion. In doing so, he has struggled with how to relocate more effectively and practically the conversion narrative of Augustine within the context of pastoral care and ministry (and the field of the academy)--in order to facilitate a better understanding of the conversion stories of the church members as well as to enhance the experiences of religious conversion within the Christian community.

Author : Robert W. Hefner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520912564

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Conversion to Christianity by Robert W. Hefner Pdf

One of the most striking developments in the history of modern civilizations has been the conversion of tribal peoples to more expansively organized "world" religions. There is little scholarly consensus as to why these religions have endured and why conversion to them has been so widespread. These essays explore the phenomenon of Christian conversion from this world-building perspective. Combining rich case studies with original theoretical insights, this work challenges sociologists, anthropologists and historians of religion to reassess the varieties of religious experience and the convergent processes involved in religious change.

Author : Kirsten Rüther,Angelika Schaser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317130758

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Gender and Conversion Narratives in the Nineteenth Century by Kirsten Rüther,Angelika Schaser Pdf

Addressing an important social and political issue which is still much debated today, this volume explores the connections between religious conversions and gendered identity against the backdrop of a world undergoing significant social transformations. Adopting a collaborative approach to their research, the authors explore the connections and differences in conversion experiences, tracing the local and regional rootedness of individual conversions as reflected in conversion narratives in three different locations: Germany and German missions in South Africa and colonial Australia, at a time of massive social changes in the 1860s. Beginning with the representation of religious experiences in so-called conversion narratives, the authors explore the social embeddedness of religious conversions and inquire how people related to their social surroundings, and in particular to gender order and gender practices, before, during and after their conversion. With a concluding reflective essay on comparative methods of history writing and transnational perspectives on conversion, this book offers a fresh perspective on historical debates about religious change, gender and social relations.

Author : David W. Kling
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Christian converts
ISBN : 9780195320923

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A History of Christian Conversion by David W. Kling Pdf

Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative history, David Kling examines the dynamic of turning to the Christian faith by individuals, families, and people groups. Global in reach, the narrative progresses from early Christian beginnings in the Roman world to Christianity's expansion into Europe, the Americas, China, India, and Africa. Conversion is often associated with a particular strand of modern Christianity (evangelical) and a particular type of experience (sudden, overwhelming). However, when examined over two millennia, it emerges as a phenomenon far more complex than any one-dimensional profile would suggest. No single, unitary paradigm defines conversion and no easily explicable process accounts for why people convert to Christianity. Rather, a multiplicity of factors-historical, personal, social, geographical, theological, psychological, and cultural-shape the converting process. A History of Christian Conversion not only narrates the conversions of select individuals and peoples, it also engages current theories and models to explain conversion, and examines recurring themes in the conversion process: divine presence, gender and the body, agency and motivation, testimony and memory, group- and self-identity, "authentic" and "nominal" conversion, and modes of communication. Accessible to scholars, students, and those with a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is the most satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian history to date; this major work will become a standard must-read in conversion studies.

Author : Chinyere Felicia Priest
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781839730115

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The Conversion of Igbo Christians to Islam by Chinyere Felicia Priest Pdf

Often considered a Christian heartland in Nigeria, Igboland has recently seen a dramatic increase in Igbo Christians converting to Islam. Yet, despite this rapid change, there has been minimal research into the growth of Islam in the area and the implications this has for Christianity in the region. Addressing this need, Dr Chinyere Felicia Priest provides a detailed exploration of Igbo converts’ reasons for conversion through skilful analysis of in-depth ethnographic interviews with thirty converts, considering their social, religious, and familial backgrounds. This unique study sheds much-needed light on the role of intellectual factors in the conversion experiences of many newly Muslim Igbos and challenges previous ideas of monetary and social influences as primary motivations for conversion. As a result of her examination of these conversion experiences, Dr Priest calls for serious intellectual engagement of biblical doctrine within the Igbo church and highlights the need for ministers and missiologists to better disciple and equip Christians to adequately engage with Muslim objections to the gospel and give a reasoned defence of their faith. The vulnerability of many Igbo Christians will continue to result in converts to Islam unless the church heeds the lessons learned from this research and outlined in this book.

Author : Marc David Baer,Todd Michael Johnson,Lily Kong,Seeta Nair,Henri Paul Pierre Gooren,Peter G. Stromberg,Fenggang Yang,Andrew Abel,Robert L. Montgomery,Rebecca Y. Kim,Raymond F. Paloutzian,Kelly Bulkeley,Heinz Streib,Eliza F. Kent,Diane Apostolos-Cappadona,D. Bruce Hindmarsh,Massimo Leone,Timothy J. Steigenga,Arvind Sharma,Andrea R. Jain,Dan Smyer Yü,Gurinder Singh Mann,Louis Komjathy,Anna Xiao Dong Sun,Lizhu Fan,Na Chen,Alan F. Segal,David William Kling,Marcia K. Hermansen,Karin van Nieuwkerk,Douglas E. Cowan,Stuart A. Wright,James T. Richardson,Seth Bryant,Rick Phillips,David Grant Stewart (Jr.)
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195338522

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The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion by Marc David Baer,Todd Michael Johnson,Lily Kong,Seeta Nair,Henri Paul Pierre Gooren,Peter G. Stromberg,Fenggang Yang,Andrew Abel,Robert L. Montgomery,Rebecca Y. Kim,Raymond F. Paloutzian,Kelly Bulkeley,Heinz Streib,Eliza F. Kent,Diane Apostolos-Cappadona,D. Bruce Hindmarsh,Massimo Leone,Timothy J. Steigenga,Arvind Sharma,Andrea R. Jain,Dan Smyer Yü,Gurinder Singh Mann,Louis Komjathy,Anna Xiao Dong Sun,Lizhu Fan,Na Chen,Alan F. Segal,David William Kling,Marcia K. Hermansen,Karin van Nieuwkerk,Douglas E. Cowan,Stuart A. Wright,James T. Richardson,Seth Bryant,Rick Phillips,David Grant Stewart (Jr.) Pdf

This handbook offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world.

Author : avid,,Miles Richardson†
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857452184

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Beyond Conversion and Syncretism by avid,,Miles Richardson† Pdf

The globalization of Christianity, its spread and appeal to peoples of non- European origin, is by now a well-known phenomenon. Scholars increasingly realize the importance of natives rather than foreign missionaries in the process of evangelization. This volume contributes to the understanding of this process through case studies of encounters with Christianity from the perspectives of the indigenous peoples who converted. More importantly, by exploring overarching, general terms such as conversion and syncretism and by showing the variety of strategies and processes that actually take place, these studies lead to a more nuanced understanding of cross-cultural religious interactions in general-from acceptance to resistance-thus enriching the vocabulary of religious interaction. The contributors tackle these issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives-history, anthropology, religious studies-and present a broad geographical spread of cases from China, Vietnam, Australia, India, South and West Africa, North and Central America, and the Caribbean.

Author : Nelson Osamu Hayashida
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9042005963

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Dreams in the African Literature by Nelson Osamu Hayashida Pdf

"This is a substantial contribution to the understanding of an important aspect of African Christianity; the place of dreams in daily life, and their significance as interpreted by a representative body of African Christians ..."--Andrew Walls

Author : Kofi Kissi Dompere
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781912234950

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Theory of Categorial Conversion by Kofi Kissi Dompere Pdf

The Theory of Categorial Conversion is advanced by Professor Kofi Kissi Dompere as mathematical-philosophical and game-theoretic foundations to solve the problem of socio-natural transformation as governed by some internal process in relation to Marx, Schumpeter and Nkrumah. Dompere' s methodology is based on the Africentric principles of opposites made up of actual-potential polarity, negative-positive duality with relational continuum and unity under cost-benefit rationality and Asantrofi-Anoma principle supported by fuzzy paradigm of thought. Socio-natural transformations are seen in terms of game theories in a fuzzy-stochastic space admitting of defective-deceptive information structures in quality-quantity space within the subjective-objective duality. The main premise of the monograph is that there exists a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for internal self-transformation. The necessary conditions are made up of categorial moments and categorial transfer functions forming the domain of control instrumentation in creating the sufficient conditions for categorial-conversion processes.Dompere presents an important methodological framework for the study and construction of the theories of socioeconomic development and political change, as well as info-dynamics connecting knowledge, sciences, innovation and engineering to the space of knowing, under qualitative-quantitative transformational dynamics with defective-deceptive information structures in the games for power and dominance by duals and poles in conflicts. The necessary conditions of socio-natural transformation are internally derived based on the relational structure of matter-energy-information activities within the dynamics of qualitative dispositions of dualities of actual-potential polarities. The theory consists of category formation showing ontological-epistemological categories, and categorial dynamics shows elemental conversions of categorial varieties in a continuum. The logical tools and the paradigm of thought for the theoretical development of Nkrumah's framework involve self-excitement, self-correction and self-control systems induced by internal contradictions. The set of necessary conditions constitutes the natural necessity that constrains cognitive freedom in socio-natural transformations. Had this conceptual system been familiar to economists and social scientists, the construct of the theories of socioeconomic development and transformations would have been increasingly successful.

Author : Sylvester A. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521198530

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African American Religions, 1500–2000 by Sylvester A. Johnson Pdf

A rich account of the long history of Black religion from the dawn of Western colonialism to the rise of the national security paradigm.

Author : Macharia Waruingi, MD DHA,Shila Waritu, MPH,Nsisong Udoh, BSc
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781300219965

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Ustawi | The Knowledge Conversion Organization by Macharia Waruingi, MD DHA,Shila Waritu, MPH,Nsisong Udoh, BSc Pdf

Ustawi is a knowledge conversion organization that facilitates the conversion of tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Ustawi's work also involves formalization of the emerging explicit knowledge to development of products, services, and technologies that improve the human life. Ustawi's effort is concentrated in the new economies and emerging markets with the aim of increasing technological innovations in these countries. The converted knowledge produces market ready products and services.