Religiosity In African Christian Churches

Author : C. Mutale
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789956553273

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In this book Tresphor Mutale critically examines contemporary African Christianity through the leadership from prophets, men of God, pastors, seers and more. The book looks at the rationality of apparently irrational religious expressions and experiences in the name of religion. It analyses the irrationalities using the spectacles of African Traditional Religions (ATR), especially with respect to the importance of rituals. From the vantage point of rituals, there is sense in nonsense, and some of the irrational religious expressions being experienced today become rational. The book raises the aspect of authority of ritual leadership in ATR and how this symbol holds authority in Christianity today and how it has power to influence believers. Mutale argues that African Christianity and how it is experienced today point to the deeper influence of African Traditional Religions. The book provokes many questions about the power of African symbolisms, their application in Christianity and how Christianity through the lenses of African Traditional Religions is able to relate and influence other areas of society like, economics, politics and sociality. The book draws on and enriches perspectives on religion and religiosity with the depth of Mutale's ability to bring into conversation anthropological, philosophical, sociological and theological approaches.

Author : Tresphor C Mutale
Publisher : Langaa RPCID
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9956552429

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Religiosity in African Christian Churches by Tresphor C Mutale Pdf

In this book Tresphor Mutale critically examines contemporary African Christianity through the leadership from prophets, men of God, pastors, seers and more. The book looks at the rationality of apparently irrational religious expressions and experiences in the name of religion. It analyses the irrationalities using the spectacles of African Traditional Religions (ATR), especially with respect to the importance of rituals. From the vantage point of rituals, there is sense in nonsense, and some of the irrational religious expressions being experienced today become rational. The book raises the aspect of authority of ritual leadership in ATR and how this symbol holds authority in Christianity today and how it has power to influence believers. Mutale argues that African Christianity and how it is experienced today point to the deeper influence of African Traditional Religions. The book provokes many questions about the power of African symbolisms, their application in Christianity and how Christianity through the lenses of African Traditional Religions is able to relate and influence other areas of society like, economics, politics and sociality. The book draws on and enriches perspectives on religion and religiosity with the depth of Mutale's ability to bring into conversation anthropological, philosophical, sociological and theological approaches.

Author : Lora Friedenthal
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781422288924

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Religions of Africa by Lora Friedenthal Pdf

While African religions are as diverse as the continent itself, most Africans can be placed in one of three groups: followers of traditional religions, Islam, or Christianity. Until the 20th century, religion was rarely a primary source of conflict. However, in recent years Muslim-Christian tensions have contributed to unrest in such nations as Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania. This book is intended as an introduction to the practice of religion in Africa today. It provides a brief history of religious development in Africa, discusses the common religious practices in various regions of the continent, and explores the role of religion in current African conflicts.

Author : Elias Kifon Bongmba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134505777

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Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa by Elias Kifon Bongmba Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of the Christian tradition across the African continent and throughout a long historical span. The volume offers historical and thematic essays tracing the introduction of Christianity in Africa, as well as its growth, developments, and effects, including the lived experience of African Christians. Individual chapters address the themes of Christianity and gender, the development of African-initiated churches, the growth of Pentecostalism, and the influence of Christianity on issues of sexuality, music, and public health. This comprehensive volume will serve as a valuable overview and reference work for students and researchers worldwide.

Author : Magesa, Laurenti
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9781608332076

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Anatomy of Inculturation by Magesa, Laurenti Pdf

In his quest to identify practices that strengthen the faith of African Christians, Magesa examines the nature of being church today in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Author : Brendan Carmody
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Peter Acho Awoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9789956578214

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The Dynamics and Contradictions of Evangelisation in Africa by Peter Acho Awoh Pdf

This book critically discusses missionary Christianity and colonization in Africa as twin enterprises with a common ambition. While the colonialist set out to invest capital and reap profit, the missionary desire was to tend and turn African souls from damnation. It was this desire that drove the missionaries into the interior, propelled by the belief that no land was too remote to escape their attention and vigilance. It equally kept missionary zeal buoyant. The clarification of the concept of salvation within the Roman Catholic Church during the Vatican II Council set in motion the current lethargy that has in some places crippled the mission itself. In retrospect, one can begin to wonder why Africans became Christians. What reasons motivated the early adherents to cling to this foreign religion? Were there some internal deficiencies in African traditional religions, which the Africans hoped to remedy by joining the new religion? Or was it just part of the wholesale flirting with whatever was foreign and perceived to be modern? What baits were used by the missionaries to entice Africans? Christianity posed a danger to many of the time-honoured answers to African problems. These were the 'values' Africans converting to Christianity were expected to abandon. Why have Christians continually returned to their abandoned roots in time of crisis? This moving, well argued, richly documented and empirically substantiated study concludes by cautioning against the stubborn drive at radical conversion to Christianity with scant regard to the imperatives of enculturation.

Author : Ezra Chitando,Masiiwa Ragies Gunda ,Lovemore Togarasei
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783863097356

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Religion and Development in Africa by Ezra Chitando,Masiiwa Ragies Gunda ,Lovemore Togarasei Pdf

"What is development? Who defines that one community/ country is "developed", while another community/ country is "under-developed"? What is the relationship between religion and development? Does religion contribute to development or underdevelopment in Africa? These and related questions elicit quite charged reactions in African studies, development studies, political science and related fields. Africa's own history, including the memory of marginalisation, slavery and exploitation by global powers ensures that virtually every discussion on development is characterised by a lot of emotions and conflicting views. In this volume scholars from various African countries and many different religions and denominations contribute to this debate."--

Author : Jacob K. Olupona,Sulayman S. Nyang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110850079

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Religious Plurality in Africa by Jacob K. Olupona,Sulayman S. Nyang Pdf

The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

Author : Elizabeth Isichei
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802808431

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A History of Christianity in Africa by Elizabeth Isichei Pdf

Isichei's thorough study surveys the full breadth of Christianity in Africa, from the early story of Egyptian Christianity to the churches of the Middle Years (1500-1800) to the prolific success of missions throughout the 1900s. This important book fills a conspicuous void of scholarly works on Africa's Christian history. Includes 26 maps.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401210577

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Trajectories of Religion in Africa by Anonim Pdf

The book, in the main, discusses issues relating to mission, ecumenism, and theological education and is presented in four sections. The first segment discusses works on ecumenical and theological education and assesses the relevance of the World Council of Churches. Other issues discussed in this segment relate to the interrelationships that exist between academic theology, ecumenism, and Christianity. The World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910, which set the agenda for world-wide mission in a promising manner in the 1920s, is also assessed in this section of the work. The second segment, which covers Religion and Public Space, discusses works that examine the relationships between religion and power, religion and development, religion and traditional religious beliefs, and religion and practices in Africa. The third segment of the book treats Religion and Cultural Practices in African and how all these work out in couching out an African theology and African Christianity. Some of the issues discussed in this section related to African traditional philosophy, spiritism, and the interrelationships that exist between African Christianity and African Traditional Religion. The last segment of the book discusses the issue of African biblical hermeneutics and specifically looks at contemporary hermeneutical approaches to biblical interpretations in Africa.

Author : Edward W. Fasholé-Luke
Publisher : London : Collings
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Autonomy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038684135

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Christianity in Independent Africa by Edward W. Fasholé-Luke Pdf

Author : Laurenti Magesa
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9783643900180

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African Religion in the Dialogue Debate by Laurenti Magesa Pdf

Dialogue between African Religion and other world religions has, regrettably, been a much neglected area in formal religious discourse in Africa to date. Moreover, up to now, the imperative of dialogue in the process of evangelism figures only peripherally - if at all - in the study of African Christian Theology. This book is probably the first deliberate, extensive and well-argued attempt by an African theologian to fill this unfortunate lacuna. How can Christian and African spiritualities interact with and enrich each other on the basis of mutual respect, without - as has historically been the case - the one necessarily seeking to eradicate the other? This is the fundamental question of dialogue discussed in the pages of this book. Dr. Laurenti Magesa is Senior Lecturer in African Theology at the Maryknoll Institute of African Studies and the Jesuit School of Theology, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.

Author : Paul Gifford
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253212049

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African Christianity by Paul Gifford Pdf

These detailed analyses of the state of the churches in each country suggest more general patterns operating widely across sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Thomas T. Spear,Isaria N. Kimambo
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024308624

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East African Expressions of Christianity by Thomas T. Spear,Isaria N. Kimambo Pdf

Tanzanian and US historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and church people challenge the assumption that Christianity in the region represents colonial and capitalist powers that helped subdue Africans. They show instead how Africans have spread the religion among themselves, have seized control of their own spiritual destinies, and used their religious beliefs to improve their individual and collective lives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR