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Author : Edmund Ilogu
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9004040218
Author : Eze Ikechukwu
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783832535421
It is not always a comfortable position to question the position of a good majority. However, it is known that the majority can sometimes be wrong or see things differently. It takes courage and a particularly critical mind to question the depth of the Christian Faith in a land seen as the future of Christianity in Africa. As a Priest with some pastoral experience both in Africa and in Europe, the Author is at home with the subject matter in this book. He accepts the fact of the growing numbers in the churches but questions the depth of conviction in the face of the problems arising from the clash of values between Christian Faith and Igbo Traditional Religion. He maintains that, if God saw enough reasons to create men differently and revealed himself differently to them, he - God accepts that men have different understandings of his relationship with them and that they may relate with him using what is available to them - their Culture and Tradition.
Author : Chibueze C. Udeani
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042022294
Although Africa is today often seen, because of its large number of Christians, as the future hope of the Church, a closer examination of African Christianity, however, shows that the Christian faith has not taken deep root in Africa. Many Africans today declare themselves to be Christians but still remain followers of their traditional African religions, especially in matters concerning the inner dimensions of their lives. It is evident that, in strictly personal matters relating to such issues as passage rites and crises, most Africans turn to their African traditional religions. As an incarnational faith, part of the history of Christianity has been its encounter with other cultures and its becoming deeply rooted in some of these cultures. The central question remains: Why has the Christian faith not taken deep root in Africa? This volume is concerned with answering this question.
Author : Edwin Anaegboka Udoye
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783643901163
For not integrating initially some of the good elements in Igbo culture, many Igbo Christians have double personality - Christian personality and traditional personality. They are Christians on Sundays but traditionalists on weekdays. To combat such an anomalous situation, in imitation of Christ's effort at completing what was lacking in the Jewish religion, author Edwin Udoye proposes radical inculturation. His book equally contains many serious theological reflections such that it recommends itself to both theologians and the scholars researching on the religions of the world. Udoye has therefore made a very significant contribution worthy of commendation to both theological and religious studies.
Author : Akuma-Kalu Njoku,Elochukwu Uzukwu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781443870344
Interface between Igbo Theology and Christianity is a timely book that provides new scholarly thinking concerning the convergence of Christianity and Igbo Traditional Religion taking place in the Igbo culture area. This book, a fruit of multidisciplinary conversation among Igbo scholars and Igbophiles, offers concepts, themes, issues, and case studies with deep ethnographic details, some of which do not exist anywhere else in print. It is a major statement of how modern Igbo scholars, social scientists, philosophers, theologians, liturgists, and active pastors and parish priests, understand the intersection of Igbo Traditional Religion and Christianity in postcolonial Nigeria. The editors and authors of the chapters of this book draw from their wealth of experience to offer to students, scholars, researchers, community-based organizations and NGOs, and practitioners in interfaith dialogue a “must have” manual to engage in and develop mutual respect and trust among Christian denominations and between them and Igbo Traditional Religion. This book will serve as a blueprint for a deep dialogue among the Igbo in both city and rural settings, in the context of clan and community life context and in the Christian parish setting. The book will certainly appeal to numerous communities in Africa wishing to share similar local experiences and collective memories, but which do not have the channels to talk about themselves in scholarly writing.
Author : George Nnaemeka Oranekwu
Publisher : Iko
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060786392
In the face of the difficult task of inculturating the Christian faith in Igboland, christianizing the Igbo and igbonizing Christianity, this book offers an interesting and inspiring study of Igbo traditional initiation forms in comparison with the Christian sacraments of initiation. Because of its characteristic features and the significant role in Igbo tradition and culture, it proposes traditional Igbo initiation forms as inculturation basis for pastoral catechesis of Christian initiation.
Author : Boniface-Peter Amu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Igbo (African people)
ISBN : 3923946406
Author : Augustine Senan Ogunyeremuba Okwu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761848844
This book explores the strategies and methods of the Protestant and Roman Catholic missionaries in Igboland and Igbo response during the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Using oral traditions, primary sources, and the author's life experience as a Christian convert and missionary, the text examines the missions' programs, missteps, and impact.
Author : Edmund Ilogu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Igbo (African people)
ISBN : 9781603364
Author : Chinyere Felicia Priest
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781839730115
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 : Charles Ok Onuh
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015032091848
Owing to their value and strategic importance in the people's mentality and culture, this work proposes the Igbo Rites of Passage as a necessary parameter and a transmitting wave-length for a firm rooting of the christian faith among the Igbos.
Author : Michael Ukpong
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Christianity and culture
ISBN : 9783643905291
Pope John Paul II speaks in "Ecclesia in Africa" (1995) of the necessity for the church to inculturate itself into the cultures of the African peoples. This book shows what makes inculturation in Africa a necessity. Against the background of a socio-empircal study it becomes understandable, why in the history of mission, from a European-religious perspective much remains misunderstood and causes distress until today. The author focuses on the 'way of Inculturation" showing how a "rooting of the Gospel in Africa" could be possible and sustainable. (Series: Biblical Perspectives for Annunciation and Teaching / Biblische Perspektiven fur Verkundigung and Unterricht, Vol. 7) [Subject: Theology, African Studies]
Author : Anonim
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595320684
Author : Luke Nnamdi Mbefo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Christianity and culture
ISBN : IND:30000055889004
Author : Hilary C. Achunike
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532018985
Historical studies about Christianity in Igboland and elsewhere in Africa have largely concentrated on church activitiesespecially on the work of expatriate missionary priests and the different denominations of Christianity adopted by the people. But what about the peoples personal experience with their religion? How does an Igbo man or woman see the Christian church as relevant to his or life? Dreams of Heaven: A Modern Response to Christianity in North-Western Igboland, 19701990 is the first serious contemporary study of how the Igbo people have responded to Christianityand how they continue to respond to it today. It shows that the Igbo response to Christianity has changed with time and perspective, and that even with an avidity for churches and religion, the Igbo are largely disillusioned and even confused about the tenets and fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith. The truth about Christianity in Igboland is that there are many who are Christian in name but pagan in practicelargely due to the fracturing, splintering, and proliferation of churches and denominations, which has made knowing true Christianity difficult for many people. With a recognition of these facts, however, is born a hope for the Igbo to embrace Christian values and further their lives of faith.